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Larry Wall wrote:
>Can anyone think of a good reason not to topicalize the first arg
>of ordinary subs these days? Other than subtle encouragement toward
>use of multis? I suppose it also makes refactoring between subs and
>methods more difficult in the case where you're adding an invocant,
>though it actually makes it easier in the case where you're just
>turning the first sub argument into an invocant because you realize
>you've been writing C-style OO code...
>
>
I'm having a hard time coming up with good reasons why we don't
s:g/<!before multi \s+> (sub|method) /{"single $1"}/;
s:g/multi (sub|method) / $1 /;
And then have a "single" still be multi, just with a MMD distance of
-Inf to everything.
-- Rod Adams
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