Re: Alternately named arguments

2003-10-27 Thread Damian Conway
David Wheeler wrote: Welcome back, Damian. Lo, how we've missed you and Larry these many long months! Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. Just to give you an update, I've be ill too (nothing nearly as serious as Larry...just a mild influenza and a little light pneumonia ;-) and I've also b

Re: Alternately named arguments

2003-10-27 Thread David Wheeler
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 05:05 PM, Damian Conway wrote: Err, no. Or at least: "Please, No!". ;-) That would certainly be a way cool abbreviation, but I suspect it would be a Very Bad Idea for unary plus to have two unrelated meanings out in the actual code. I suspect that the "named-only