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On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 09:32:40AM -0400, Peter Martini wrote: > Just a couple of thoughts from my phone, which is why I cut out the message: > > 1. Sub signatures have been prototyped, and quite successfully, on CPAN. > The internal interface could be improved, but the core support is there. What?? Yes, the vague hand-wavy 20,000ft view of "lets reuse the prototype field to put named parameters" idea has been prototyped on CPAN. Lots of times. The _details_ haven't been. There's lots of arguments on strict-vs-lax arity, what to do about when the caller provides too many values, or too few.. Whether it should be alias or bind or copy or read-only or whatever.. These are all the _details_ that are still being worked out now precicely _because_ it hasn't been prototyped properly yet on CPAN. When _ONE_ standard set of semantics makes its way out among all the others, as being the one the _community_ wants, that is the time I feel would be right for p5p to look into it. Not before. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/Thread Previous | Thread Next