Re: RFC 57 (v1) Subroutine prototypes and parameters

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:59:35 -0700, Jacob Davies wrote:

>I almost don't think named parameters are worth having unless you can supply
>hashes or hashrefs to the subs; otherwise, you can't build parameter lists
>outside the sub call itself.

Oh yes they have. Look at modules with functions with a lot of optional
parameters (typically 10 or more), for example in CGI.pm.

There's even a special syntax for such parameters: 

        -name => $value

This is named arguments in disguise.

-- 
        Bart.