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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:50 PM Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> Just to be clear here. I fully expect that function calls will always
> consist of the caller passing a list to the function, and that the
> proposed named parameter syntax is just a way of easily processing
> adjacent pairs of values in that list. So in:
>
> sub foo(:$x, :$y) { ... }
>
> The caller is expected to pass 4 arguments. How the caller does this is up
> to the caller. They could do
>
> foo('x', 1, 'y', '2');
>
Since arrays and hashes are flattened into a list, it seems that someone
might do sub foo(:@bar) {...} and get surprising results. Either it doesn't
do what they expect, or it's a syntax error. If named arguments can only
use scalar values, why not drop the sigil?
sub foo (:x, :y) { ... }
Best,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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