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On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 08:23:56PM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > (Yes, I know I am commenting on unfinished work. Ignore this message > if it seems inapposite.) > > I like the idea of the new sig ops, but I think they should be named > based on what they do, not on how they got there. > > So the op names should start with arg, not sig. > > It might be useful at some point to optimise 'manual' argument handling > to those ops where possible' I think I agree with you about the renaming, although I will point out that the new ops are restricted in where they can be used, in that they assume that the lexical var being created is undef/empty, non-magical etc. In general, code like 'my $x = $_[3]' can't assume that, due to closure tricks etc. -- The optimist believes that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. As does the pessimist.Thread Previous | Thread Next