Hi Damian, welcome back! Damian Conway writes: > Luke Palmer asked: > > >Presuming you can do: > > > > (who => $name, why => $reason) := (why => $because, who => "me"); > > > >(from A6) > > > >Does that imply that you can do: > > > > sub routine (name => $nombre, date => $fecha) {...} > > If we're consistent about lvalues of binds being the same as argument lists, > it probably does.
Neat. > > >Anyway, I just realized that this is finally an elegant way to do > >multiple, unordered return values: > > > > (name => $name, id => $id) := getinfo(); > > Yep. > > > >(Or, in this precise case:) > > > > (+$name, +$id) := getinfo(); > > Err, no. Or at least: "Please, No!". ;-) Good. That made my stomach hurt. Luke > That would certainly be a way cool abbreviation, but I suspect it would be > a Very Bad Idea for unary plus to have two unrelated meanings out in the > actual code. I suspect that the "named-only" markers are only available > within actual parameter lists. > > Damian >