On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
: Being able to specify fixed arguments after a splat looks illegal, or at
: least immoral. It opens the door to backtracking in argument parsing,
: e.g.:
:
: sub foo (*@args, &func, *@more_args, $arg, &func) { ... }
:
: > Saying specifically a list of arrays. Also, would that list gobble up
: > everything, or would it actually allow that coderef on the end?
:
: I would expect it to be a syntax error, since the slurp parameter has to
: be the last.
This sort of thing must be done with real parsing rules. These can return
a list of args as a single @args argument without having to play with splat.
Larry
