On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:15:15AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
> Perhaps using \ in the signature to indicate p-b-r is not the
> best...it could confuse people into thinking that they will need to
> manually dereference the variable, which they shouldn't need to do.
>
> Is there a way to do this now? If not, will there be a way in
> Perl6?
I think the syntax is now
sub load_date ($filename is rw; $version) { ... }
Changes to $filename within load_data() affect the caller.
-Scott
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