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On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 01:28:08PM +0300, Ivan Vorontsov wrote:
> Maybe genuine optional parameters must be only the ones marked by =
> sign. Others are mandatory. To mandatory parameters with //= or ||=
> operators, that are last in the list or precede optional ones with =,
> undef values are assigned, if there are less arguments than mandatory
> parameters, and then operator works with that value.
I think that that's complex and confusing. You're basically saying
f($x, $y = 1, $z = 2) # $y is optional parameter
f($x, $y //= 1, $z = 2) # $y is optional parameter
f($x, $y //= 1, $z ) # $y is mandatory parameter
f($x, $y //= 1 ) # $y is optional parameter
I think //= and ||= should be consistently either mandatory or optional,
and not vary based on context.
And since there already been a release (5.38) where they're optional, I
think we should keep it that way.
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