On 2005-11-07 1:30 PM, "Andrew Rodland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Especially when that complexity isn't optional. I
> think that's really a common "fear", that Perl 6 is going well beyond that
> point of sensibility.
>
> If you want to get into personal beliefs, I think that function signatures are
> such a complexity quagmire -- and that they're line-noise ugly to boot.
But the ugly and complex bits of function signatures are completely
optional. In the usual case, you can just say
sub foo($x, $y) { do stuff with $x and $y }
Or
method foo($x, $y) { default invocant name used to do stuff with $x and $y }
And not have to worry about it.
