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Re: Proposal: Named parameters for 5.12

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From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
December 5, 2008 13:43
Subject:
Re: Proposal: Named parameters for 5.12
Message ID:
20081205214305.GI16081@tytlal.topaz.cx
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 04:35:45PM -0500, jesse wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:23:06PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > What say we make named parameters part of Perl 5.12?  (Finally?!)
> 
> Would it make sense to just steal the full spec for Perl 6 method
> signatures?

It would make all kinds of sense to be as strict a subset as possible, which
was my approach with Perl6::Subs.  Some of the Perl 6 features are sure not
to translate, of course, but everybody expects that.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg   twitter:chipsalz
"UTOPIA PLANITIA IS IN ORBIT is the new HAN SHOT FIRST" - Crisper Than Thou
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