On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:18:47PM -0800, Paul wrote:
I think Larry's accomodating everybody, here.
Those of us who want to play with the tinkertoys will probably enjoy
the whole box, even the little widgets that take us a while to
identify.
Agreed. But I'd like to keep the identification
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:40:49AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
Yes, though it's usually been mentioned with respect to things like:
my ($a,$b,$c) is constant = abc();
However, I would personally go with the prefix zone macros before using
distributed traits, just to get the zone info out
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:20PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
I think newbies are going to unquestionably try and put the parameters
in the same order as they expect to see the eventual arguments, and be
durn confused it doesn't work -- I know I would.
[...]
Dunno. I'm just one
--- David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:20PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
I think newbies are going to unquestionably try and put the
parameters in the same order as they expect to see the eventual
arguments, and be durn confused it doesn't work -- I know I
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 09:58 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
: sub foo($x, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +$k) {...}# (2) OK
Fine, you can set @a using positional notation, like push(), in
addition to the notations available to (1). But if you set k =,
it has to be before the list, unless you pass
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:46:21PM -0800, mlazzaro wrote:
: Luke Palmer wrote:
:
: The idea is that positional parameters are always a contiguous
: sequence in the argument list. If it looked like this:
:
: sub foo($x, ?$y, +$k, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
:
: Then one might presume to
Luke Palmer wrote:
The idea is that positional parameters are always a contiguous
sequence in the argument list. If it looked like this:
sub foo($x, ?$y, +$k, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
Then one might presume to call it like:
foo($x, $y, $k, 1, 2, 3);
Which they can't. So
A simple question, I hope...
From A6, Calling Subroutines, comes the following:
multi push(@array, +$how, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {...}
push(@a, how = 'rapidly', 1,2,3); # OK
push(@a, 1,2,3); # WRONG, $how == 1!
Oops! What you really wanted to say was:
multi
When calling a sub that has both named params and a slurpy list, the
slurpy list should always come last. If a sub has both a slurpy hash
and a slurpy list, the slurpy list should still always come last. You
simply can't credibly have anything after the slurpy list, or it'll be
slurped.
