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From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
April 11, 2002 10:42
Subject:
Re: Defaulting params
Message ID:
m27knenpqc.fsf@bofh.org.uk
Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 00:47, Damian Conway wrote:
>
>> sub load_data ($filename) { load_data($filename, 1) }
>>
>> sub load_data ($filename, $version) {...}
>
> Interesting. This brings goto to mind. Above, I could just assume
> that inlining will happen, but what about goto? Obviously:
>
> sub load_data($filename) { goto &load_data }
>
> would be ambiguous, and would throw away the (now lexical)
> $filename.
>
> I can't see any way to usefully preserve the old new meaning of
> goto. Is this a good thing?
If we're getting continuations then, where we're going we won't need
goto.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
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