Hi Damian, welcome back!
Damian Conway writes:
> Luke Palmer asked:
>
> >Presuming you can do:
> >
> > (who => $name, why => $reason) := (why => $because, who => "me");
> >
> >(from A6)
> >
> >Does that imply that you can do:
> >
> > sub routine (name => $nombre, date => $fecha) {...}
>
> If we're consistent about lvalues of binds being the same as argument lists,
> it probably does.
Neat.
>
> >Anyway, I just realized that this is finally an elegant way to do
> >multiple, unordered return values:
> >
> > (name => $name, id => $id) := getinfo();
>
> Yep.
>
>
> >(Or, in this precise case:)
> >
> > (+$name, +$id) := getinfo();
>
> Err, no. Or at least: "Please, No!". ;-)
Good. That made my stomach hurt.
Luke
> That would certainly be a way cool abbreviation, but I suspect it would be
> a Very Bad Idea for unary plus to have two unrelated meanings out in the
> actual code. I suspect that the "named-only" markers are only available
> within actual parameter lists.
>
> Damian
>
