On 27 January 2012 04:18, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Father Chrysostomos via RT > <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: >> >> > I don't see why "and 0 or more arguments" is treated differently than >> > "and optionally 0 or more arguments". >> >> If we allow _@, then it becomes more complicated to explain why _$ is >> not allowed. > > > Then what if _@ and _% suggested using _;@ and _;%? > _@ and _% sound sensible to me, so I pushed this : commit 34daab0fa047b2849547189ae5f48b276658af01 Author: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs@consttype.org> Date: Fri Jan 27 10:23:12 2012 +0100 Allow prototypes (_@) and (_%) Those will be equivalent to (_;@) and (_;%) ; since perlsub already states that the semicolon is redundant before @ and % this is in line with the existing documentation.Thread Previous | Thread Next