> From: "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:12:41 -0600
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> > > [regarding -> as a left-to-right pipe-like operator]
> >
> > '->' isn't (in my mind) "a left-to-right
> > flow/assignment operator." It's a unary
> > operator, synonymous with "sub" without
> > parens required around the argument list.
>
> You seem to be forgetting:
>
> given $foo -> $_
>
> and cousins.
Nope, I'm not.
given $foo -> $_ { ... }
given $foo { ... }
given $foo sub { ... }
Are all equivalent (if sub topicalizes its first parameter).
Thus, the signature of given, for, et cetera, is:
sub given($var, &block) { ... } # Without the comma, somehow.
Luke
