On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:53:43AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Larry Wall writes:
: > Certainly. The zone markers are as orthogonal to sigils as we can
: > make 'em. Though I'm not sure we've given a meaning to *&foo yet.
: > I suppose that would have to mean that the next slurpy parameter has
: > to be a sub ref.
:
: Uhmm... isn't *&foo the adverbial block? That is, isn't it where grep
: gets its code block in:
:
: @list.grep:{ $_ % 2 }
Maybe it can mean either of those things without conflict, as long
as you don't try to make it mean both. :{...} is just short for a
named parameter that happens to bind to the *&foo looking parameter,
but as with ordinary list operators, they can be passed positionally
as well as by name.
But yes, to be perfectly frank, I'd forgotten about that. Doubtless
a sign of premature senility.
Larry
