Re: RFC 57 (v1) Subroutine prototypes and parameters

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:49:07 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:

>In the meantime, is there a reason the suggestion of:
>
>>    foo($x := 10, $y := 20)
>
>was dropped? It seems pretty obvious to me.

It only looks obvious to you, because it's familiar from other
programming languages. But Perl's equivalent to that is a bare "=", and
that is not quite acceptable because it will work immediately, and on
the wrong variable.

-- 
        Bart.