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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:29 PM, l.mai@web.de <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
wrote:
> The syntax 'sub foo :attributes ($signature) { ... }' is awful. It should
> be 'sub foo($signature) :attributes { ... }'. (This might be a candidate
> for bug #121481.)
>
> Why? Because syntactically the signature replaces what used to be the
> prototype, and that comes before attributes. It's also what all signature
> modules on CPAN implement.
>
> It's also what perl itself does in C. :-)
>
> OP* Perl_newDEFSVOP(pTHX) __attribute__((warn_unused_result));
>
> not
>
> OP* Perl_newDEFSVOP __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) (pTHX);
>
> (I have no idea if that would even parse.)
>
I agree that feels more natural (), but this also feels like a highly
subjective thing. IMO, ideally we'd allow both variations (because why
wouldn't we?).
Leon
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