Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers wrote:
>
>> one could always handle the first case
>> more explicitly by doing:
>>
>> sub load_data ($filename; $version) {
>> $version = 1 if @_.length < 2;
>> ...
>> }
>
> Err...no. If you specify named parameters, you don't get @_.
>
> It could be handled by overloading though:
>
> sub load_data ($filename) { load_data($filename, 1) }
>
> sub load_data ($filename, $version) {...}
Ooh. Multiple dispatch is definitely in then? Did I miss something?
But *great*.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
