Re: RFC 57 (v1) Subroutine prototypes and parameters

[Nathan Wiger]

> True.
> 
> I wonder if we could change '=>' to always quote the lhs, even if
> prefixed by '$', '@', or '%'  (maybe we should only enable this
> behaviour inside parameter lists?)  That would allow us to do this.

That's gonna take some digestion time.

In the meantime, is there a reason the suggestion of:

>    foo($x := 10, $y := 20)

was dropped? It seems pretty obvious to me. Or what about:

     foo($x ||= 10, $y ||= 20);

For a little more clarity? Perhaps we're re-inventing the wheel with
some new syntax. This works, it's Perl, and it's obvious what's going
on.

-Nate