On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:25:45PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: : In this case, the reliance on saying: : : if (+$x > 9) ... : : to disambiguate logical/arithmetic/string/whatever context in expressions is : going to sit at cross purposes to the +-as-required-arg usage. It'll be yet : another source of learning curve gradient to no real purpose. : : method x ($me: $req, ?$opt, +$namedopt, *%named, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...} : vs: : method x($me: $req, ?$opt, ~$namedopt, *%named, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
Using ~ is not an improvement in that respect. Named arguments are not in string context.
Looking at this, all I can think is "I hope there's a long-form of all this punctuation notation for those of us old and feeble folks".
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