On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:40AM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: On 2/24/06, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: No. One of the available TRAITS is Creturns RETTYPE. So you can always
: specify a postfix return type, even without a declarator:
:
: sub data() returns Str {...}
:
:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:40AM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Come to think of it, that seems backwards. After all, aren't:
:
: my Foo $x;
: my $x of Foo;
:
: Equivalent?
Didn't answer this part...
If -- and returns are different, than of probably sets the -- type
rather than the
According to the revised Synopsis 6, named subroutines can have one of three
forms:
my RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# lexical only
our RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# also package-scoped
sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# same as
Joe Gottman asked:
my RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# lexical only
our RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# also package-scoped
sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# same as our
Note that the third possibility here does not include a return type. Does
On 2/24/06, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. One of the available TRAITS is Creturns RETTYPE. So you can always
specify a postfix return type, even without a declarator:
sub data() returns Str {...}
The declarator is only needed if you want to prefix your return type
