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Ovid via perl5-porters
Date:
January 21, 2022 17:03
Subject:
Re: Things you can't do in a signatured sub
Message ID:
1759516922.359787.1642784606509@mail.yahoo.com
On Friday, 21 January 2022, 17:49:47 CET, Ovid via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:

> I knew my 3VL discussion went over like a lead balloon, but I couldn't resist being cheeky ...
>
>   use Unknown::Values;
>
>   sub foo ($bar = unknown) {
>        say is_unknown $bar ? "unknown" : "known";
>    }
>
>   foo();
>
> That prints "unknown", so if someone passed in `undef`, it will print "known" because
> someone explicitly assigned to it.

Er ... because someone "didn't" explicitly assign to it. (Damned typos (sic))

Best,
Ovid
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