Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29/12/05, Austin Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, is there a conceptual connection between imposing named argument >> interpretation on pairs in an arg list and slurping up the end of a >> parameter list? Are there other meanings of prefix:<*> that relate to >> one or the other of these two meanings? > > The missing link is that prefix:<*> in an argument list also causes > things like arrays to be treated as a sequence of separate parameters, > rather than as a single array parameter. See "Flattening argument > lists" in S06. > > (This was the original meaning of prefix:<*> in arglists; the > named-pair behaviour was added later, when pair values ceased to have > named behaviour automatically.)
Personally, I think that prefix * in an arglist should only flatten array arguments if there is only one array. And if it doesn't, how do I declare parameter that is 'a slurpy list of arrays' or 'the rest of the arguments, without flattening'. If I *really* want aggressive flattening then I can call, say, @slurpy_param.flatten -- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.bofh.org.uk/
