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On 2022-01-19 11:08 p.m., Yuki Kimoto wrote:
> 2022-1-20 14:32 Dan Book wrote:
> ($arg, @rest)
>
>
> Do you recommend the following code to the Perl users?
>
> sub foo ($arg, @rest) {
> my ($foo, $bar) = @rest;
> }
>
> Instead of
>
> sub foo ($arg, $foo, $bar) {
> }
For the scenario where we want foo() to effectively have multiple alternative
parameter lists, and we are unwilling to have a different sub name for each
distinct parameter list, and Perl doesn't support overloading, then the first
option is indeed the best option that we have.
The second option is best when foo just has one parameter list to support.
In the general case, where alternatives are supported, the parameters which are
constant between all variants should be spelled out individually in the
signature, and @rest would have the parameters that vary.
In the special case of multiple alternative parameter lists where all the
alternatives have the same arity, we can instead have something like this:
sub foo ($arg, $foo_or_x, $bar_or_y)) {
}
... whatever the developer wants to do, they are given the choice.
-- Darren Duncan
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