If I've understood A6 correctly there are 6 types of argument to subroutines:
invocant, mandatory positional parameters, optional positional parameters,
optional named parameters, slurpy hash and slurpy array.
How come there seems to be no way to specify mandatory named parameters?
I'm not sure
NC == Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NC If I've understood A6 correctly there are 6 types of argument to
NC subroutines: invocant, mandatory positional parameters, optional
NC positional parameters, optional named parameters, slurpy hash and
NC slurpy array.
NC How come
Uri Guttman wrote:
NC == Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NC How come there seems to be no way to specify mandatory named
NC parameters? I'm not sure that *I*'d ever want to write
apoc6:
A hash declaration like *%named indicates that the %named hash
should
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:32:41PM -0800, mlazzaro wrote:
: So my reading is that it's not possible to specify 'required' named parameters,
: unless we're completely missing something. My first impulse is that it's not a
: big deal, because who's gonna do that? My second impulse is... well... if
LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LW On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:32:41PM -0800, mlazzaro wrote:
LW : So my reading is that it's not possible to specify 'required'
LW : named parameters, unless we're completely missing something. My
LW : first impulse is that it's not a big
