On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:14AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: Given that signatures have grown well beyond their origins as
: subroutine parameter lists, and given that signatures have their own
: syntax, perhaps they should be
At present, signatures appear to serve at least three rather diverse
purposes in Perl 6:
* parameter lists for routines (can also be used to specify what a
given routine returns; explored in detail in S06).
* variable declaration (see declarators in S03).
* parametric roles (currently only
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:14AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: Given that signatures have grown well beyond their origins as
: subroutine parameter lists, and given that signatures have their own
: syntax, perhaps they should be moved out of S06? I could see S08
: being retasked to address
