> -----Original Message-----
> 1d) Additional arguments may occur as adverbs *only* if there
> are explicit parens. (Or in the absence of parens they may
> parse as arguments when a term is expected--but then they're
> not adverbs, just named arguments...)
>
> splurt():by{ +$_ } # okay
> splurt 1,2,3 :by{ +$_ } # ILLEGAL (comma rejects the adverb)
> splurt 1,2,3 :{ +$_ } # ILLEGAL (comma rejects the adverb)
> splurt 1,2,3,:{ +$_ } # likely okay (as anonymous named
> param)
> splurt :{ +$_ } # likely okay (as anonymous named
> param)
> splurt { +$_ } # okay (positional param)
> splurt 1,2,3, { +$_ } # okay (positional param)
>
Doesn't the concept of an anonymous named param (in the fourth and fifth
examples above) seem like an oxymoron? If it's anonymous it can't have a
name (or at least we can't know its name). More importantly, what is an
anonymous named param used for?
Also, suppose I have a hash
%foo = {'by' => 1, 'from' => 2};
Would
splurt :%foo;
have the same result as
splurt :by(1) :from(2);
or would I need the braces in this case?
Joe Gottman
