On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 10:51, John Siracusa wrote:
> Hm, so how would the "is required" trait that Damian posted work? Would it
> simply be shorthand for a run-time check that I don't have to write myself?
> I was under the impression that it would work the way I described earlier:
>
> sub foo(+$a is required, +$b is required) { ... }
Your example is a non-multi sub, which AFAIK means that you can do this
at compile time. But for multis and methods, I think Larry and Dan's
comments still hold.
The likelyhood that P6.0.0 will make this distinction is another thing.
I'd rather have a language that works than one that is complete. Plenty
of time to complete it later, but those who are thinking of taking on
large-scale development with it (e.g. converting over large CPAN modules
or implementing new Perl6ish libraries) just want something that runs :)
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