From the recent P6 Summary:
Larry's response is a masterpiece of conciseness:
Well, actually, we saved you last summer when we decided to make +
mean that the parameter must be named.
Larry's response also didn't really address the issue, since parameters
marked with a + in the
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:16:00PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
: ...but I'm not sure if this is just one of Damian's Crazy Ideas(tm)
: or if it'll actually end up as a standard part of the Perl 6 language.
I've never considered the two to be mutually exclusive. :-)
Larry
Parameters Strike Back - P6 Summary
Clarification
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:16:00PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
: ...but I'm not sure if this is just one of Damian's Crazy Ideas(tm)
: or if it'll actually end up as a standard part of the Perl 6 language.
I've never considered the two
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:18:14PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote:
: They're exclusive by definition.
I don't think so. Merely disjunctional.
: Were it to become part of the language, it would be one of Damian's
: Brilliant Ideas.
Crazy and Brilliant are not mutually exclusive either. There are
