On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:43:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Only augment //= in subroutine declarations, //= would also work. > I love the //= operator, but in the context of sub declarations it's > confusing as the *only* way to default an argument.
Oh. You want default() to be synonymous with //= but only in subroutine declarations. That seems a tad odd. Why not make it synonymous everywhere? my $foo is default(23); # same as ... my $foo //= 23; -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]