On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > Here are some alternatives you don't seem to have considered:
[...] > my Str sub greeting (Str $person) is export { > "Hello, $person"; > } > > my Str > sub greeting (Str $person) is export { > "Hello, $person"; > } Do these declare the subroutine in the lexical scope only? > And I try to believe six foolish consistencies before breakfast each day. :-) I'm glad you do! I value consistency a lot, but I do realise one has to choose the _right_ consistencies. Anyway, thanks for replying. I think I can live with the issue. :) It seems to center on the fact that Perl 6 allows you to put a lot of stuff into the signature. This isn't helped much by any potential Haskell-style pattern matching, at least not in a way I can see. I still do want to match against constants in the signature, however: sub foo ( 0 ) { ... } sub foo ( $bar ) { ... } So I'm very confused about my opinion on the issue of pattern matching.. > Larry -- wolverian
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