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Postings from October 1999
On Oct 26, Greg McCarroll blah blah blah: > At 12:14 26/10/99 -0400, Jeff Pinyan wrote: > > > > sub foo (;$); > > print foo $a, $b; > > > >whine that foo has too many arguments? This was one issue I meant to > >discuss, and then got totally involved in the reftype debate. > > this is what i would expect, ;$ implies that there are no mandatory > arguments, and potentially one optional argument. i.e. 0 or 1 arguments > are acceptable, but nothing else, perl -le 'print prototype "CORE::ref"' ;$ Do builtins have special magic with them? That is my guess. Damn the man^Hgic. -- MIDN 4/C PINYAN, USNR, NROTCURPI jeff pinyan japhy@pobox.com perl stuff japhy+perl@pobox.com CPAN ID: PINYAN http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/P/PI/PINYAN/