Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Related, I think: no-one answered my question about what happens when I
> define
>
> sub dumb ($var, @var) {
> ...
> }
>
> and then call it with the pair var=>$thing
Exception, probably. Perhaps the error would be something like:
"Dumb ambiguous binding of dumb named parameter ("var") at demo.pl line 1. Dummy."
;-)
> Presumably for clarity it is better to store the sigil in the match object,
> because if I've understood perl6 symbol tables correctly they are going to
> be storing names-with-sigils. (To allow the elimination of typeglobs)
The part about sigils being part of symbol table keys is indeed correct.
Damian
