I would argue that signatures are great for any command line script because you can use them with MAIN to get input checking.
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, 18:07 Veesh Goldman, <rabbive...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe there's a disparity here between the needs of a sysadmin and > people who program hardcore with Raku. That's what I'm seeing in the > discussion here. > > Signatures are very important to those who write programs, because they > help you arrange your code in a clean and maintainable and predictable way. > > Those who only write one-off scripts or one liners don't yet understand > their value. > > My two cents on what's going on here. > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:17 PM yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > The signatures are very important to the developers. >> > They only confuse the programmer. >> >> Speak for yourself, I'm not developing the innards of Raku, I'm just >> using it for projects- like you. And I NEED the signatures. They tell me so >> much!! >> >> -y >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 6:53 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < >> perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: >>> > Signatures are important to Raku. >>> >>> Trey, >>> >>> The signatures are very important to the developers. >>> They only confuse the programmer. >>> >>> -T >>> >>