Re: Strange interaction between pairs and named binding

[Damian Conway]

Larry wrote:

: If the Bare code object (including pointy and non-pointy) default their
: parameter types to "Any" (that is, Item|Pair|Junction), then all of
: these would work:

: : for [1..10].pairs { say(.value) }

:     for [1..10].pairs { say($^x.value) }
:     for [1..10].pairs -> $x { say($x.value) }
:     for 1|2, 3|4 { say(.values) }
:     for 1|2, 3|4 { say($^x.values) }
:     for 1|2, 3|4 -> $x { say($x.values) }

I dunno.  I'm inclined to say that it should default to Item|Pair, and
let people say Any explicitly if they really want to suppress autothreading.

Not surprisingly, I strongly agree with this sentiment! ;-)

Damian