:(:who($name), :why($reason)) := (why => $because, who => "me");
What do the symbols $name and $reason refer to? Are they names already in scope? "Alternately, the my declarator can also force treatment of its argument as a signature." That would be my (:who($name), :why($reason)) := (why => $because, who => "me"); which declares $name and $reason, and poises them for aliasing to named return values. Signatures normally are used as the beginning of functions and introduce local variables. --John
