On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Juerd wrote:
for simple subs in Perl6 I will probably still use @_
You'd be a fool to do so, with the sole exception of list manipulation,
[snip]
Compare:
sub dosomething { @_[0] blah @_[1] }
sub dosomething ($a, $b) { $a blah $b }
sub dosomething { $^a blah $^b }
Ouch! I take back my words... (should've thought of it better!)
The @_ solution is really the most ugly and hard to type of the three
possibilities.
I currently only rarely use @_ *directly*. I C<shift> and assign a lot
instead. Indeed both are still unnecessarily complex and I once gain take
back my word.
I'm still convinced my remark _partly_ applies in the sense that the
overall impression is that a vast majority of most common needs is
addressed by a *subset* of the current features and trying to stuff all
them in has brought in quite a lot of discussions of which I'm not even
sure if they've all settled down.
Michele
--
[are there] Any areas of mathematical knowledge or skills that we lost?
Yes, but I don't remember what they are.
- Kevin Foltinek in sci.math [edited]
