Re: [perl #40968] [BUG] :multi doesn't seem to work right

2006-11-23 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 23 November 2006 08:48, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > Here's a more detailed use case of why the current semantics > aren't useful.  For subroutine calls, PAST-pm tries to pass > constants directly to subroutines (when it can) rather than > creating temporary PMCs and passing those.  For

Re: :anon Subs and Namespaces

2006-11-23 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:37:26 -0800 Ben Morrow wrote: > > ...but that's just a braino on Matt's part, and his point still stands > for the code > > package Test; > > sub apply { > my $func = shift;

Re: Re: :anon Subs and Namespaces

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Diephouse
Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so we're basically solving the same problem as Perl 5's "main" routine, which it stuffs in an obscure C variable internal to the interpreter, not accessible from the symbol table. (Talk about less-than-transparent introspection.) Huh. I don't know

Re: [perl #40968] [BUG] :multi doesn't seem to work right

2006-11-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:20:58PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 21:03 schrieb Leopold Toetsch: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 18:03 schrieb Patrick R.Michaud: > > > Is this a bug (I think it is), or does the underscore in > > > > > > :multi mean something other