On 4/22/04 6:52 PM, John Siracusa wrote: > Yes, it appears that runtime checks for the existence of required params > will continue to be a necessary part of Perl programming.
...of course, there are at least two ways to do "runtime checks": * runtime checks that the programmer has to write himself * runtime checks that the compiler generates automatically (presumably using a trait like "is required") I'm sure someone will write the latter if it's not part of the core language...hint hint :) -John