Re: RFC 57 (v1) Subroutine prototypes and parameters

[Jacob Davies]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:42:32PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 06:28:27 +1000 (EST), Damian Conway wrote:
> No, seriously: unless you can read those variables as x or y, I wouldn't
> drop the prefixes. It's not consistent. If you use the values as $x or
> @t, then please, use $x and @t in the above syntax, as well.

This doesn't make sense to me, because those are not variables that
are currently in-scope.  They're only in-scope inside the sub you're
calling.  And in fact if you require the prefixes, you're *continually* going
to be writing code that looks like:

        foo( $name : $name, @addresses : @addresses, $email : $email );

because you're often going to name in-scope variables the same thing as
the parameter names for the sub.

I prefer:

        foo( name : $name, addresses : @addresses, email : $email );

even though I'd rather that:

        foo( name => $name, addresses => \@addresses, email => $email );

"just worked" somehow.  Magical thinking, I know.

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Jacob Davies
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