> Okay, I won't shout (not even on PerlMonks :-), but named parameters
> default to optional, so you'd have to write that as
>
> sub convert (:$from!, :$to!, :$thing!) { ... }
>
> in the current scheme of things.Either way, the point is still that the benefits FAR outweigh any additional complexity. Ruby could benefit from this, too. (While first-class blocks rock my world, the weird subroutine signature stuff most certainly doesn't.) Rob
