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Postings from October 1999
At 12:14 26/10/99 -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote: >Why does > > sub foo (;$); > print foo $a, $b; > >whine that foo has too many arguments? This was one issue I meant to >discuss, and then got totally involved in the reftype debate. > >Is this "expected" behavior? this is what i would expect, ;$ implies that there are no mandatory arguments, and potentially one optional argument. i.e. 0 or 1 arguments are acceptable, but nothing else, Greg -- "Every day when i wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." - International Velvet, Catatonia **** Greg McCarroll (greg@mccarroll.demon.co.uk), London, England ****