On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:09:37PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Larry Wall writes:
: > Step A: For each positional parameter, if the next supplied argument is:
: >
: > 1) a non-pair
: > 2) a pair, and this parameter is explicitly declared Pair, or
: > 3) a hash, and this parameter is declared Hash, either explicitly,
: > or implicitly with a % sigil,
:
: Wait, so:
:
: sub foo (?$x, *%opts) {...}
:
: foo @a; # $x = [EMAIL PROTECTED], %opts = ();
: foo %a; # $x = undef, %opts = %a;
:
: That's asymmetrical, and I think in a bad way.
Yeah, I agree. How 'bout we go with something like you have to *
the actual hash (if it's the first thing) to make it look like a
list of pairs to the parser, and we can just get rid of 3 there.
Larry
