Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 6, Dan Anderson said: > >> Dan> So: foo->bar qw(foo bar); is equivalent to foo->bar("foo","bar"); ? >> >> Only in recent Perls. > >Do you know exactly how recent? Are we talking 5 or better or 3 or >better? Without check perldeltas, I'd say 5.6. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-06 Thread Dan Anderson
> Dan> So: foo->bar qw(foo bar); is equivalent to foo->bar("foo","bar"); ? > > Only in recent Perls. Do you know exactly how recent? Are we talking 5 or better or 3 or better? Thanks in advance, -Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Dan" == Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> So: foo->bar qw(foo bar); is equivalent to foo->bar("foo","bar"); ? Only in recent Perls. The mapping of qw(...) to a (...) list at compile time is a modern addition. Older Perls replaced it with a runtime split on the string, and pro

Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
[sorry about that first post, I got ^X-happy] On Nov 5, Dan Anderson said: >use Data::Dump qw(dump); >foo->bar qw(foo bar); >Am I correct in assuming that if I have a subroutine foo (or method if >called with a package name), and I use qw() it takes all words seperated >by spaces, and passes the

Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Nov 5, Dan Anderson said: >I've noticed that in code examples something like the following will be >used: > >use Data::Dump qw(dump); >foo->bar qw(foo bar); > >(Syntax may not be 100% correct). > >Am I correct in assuming that if I have a subroutine foo (or method if >called with a package name

Re: Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-05 Thread R. Joseph Newton
Dan Anderson wrote: > I've noticed that in code examples something like the following will be > used: > > use Data::Dump qw(dump); > foo->bar qw(foo bar); > > (Syntax may not be 100% correct). > > Am I correct in assuming that if I have a subroutine foo (or method if > called with a package name),

Is foo qw (arg1 arg2) equivalent to foo (arg1, arg2)?

2003-11-05 Thread Dan Anderson
I've noticed that in code examples something like the following will be used: use Data::Dump qw(dump); foo->bar qw(foo bar); (Syntax may not be 100% correct). Am I correct in assuming that if I have a subroutine foo (or method if called with a package name), and I use qw() it takes all words sep