On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: > The spec doesn't elaborate on how the short args are specified in the > signature of MAIN. I see two possible approaches (that don't contradict): > > 1) one renames them in the signature, so it would like > > sub MAIN(:name(:$n)) > > then $n has two names, 'name' and 'n', and we could consider all one-letter > parameter names as short names > this is what was intended in the spec. if you can update it to stamp out the ambiguity, that would be most welcome.
> 2) Iterate over all named parameters and build unambiguous prefixes. If any > of them is just one letter short, we consider it a short name. > > > Anz opinions from p6l about it? > this method has too much magic. ~jerry
