On 2008-Aug-9, John M. Dlugosz wrote <http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/return.html
> to clarify and extrapolate from what is written in the Synopses:
Third, list assignment will handle assignment to a literal pair by
accessing the names of the items inside the Capture. So list
assignment behaves a lot like binding, but doesn’t do everything
that parameter passing can do.
[...]
The example seen early on of (:$year,:$mon,:$mday) =
localtime(time); can be made to work by returning both positional
and named values. The return signature would need to have twice as
many items, and the return statement would need to supply each one
twice.
Couldn't these all work the same way as parameter passing does? Even
at the cost of a bit more complexity, it would be simpler overall to
have only one set of rules to learn.
-David
