Re: Placeholder Variable

2015-03-15 Thread Timo Paulssen 
On 03/15/2015 09:41 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Timo Paulssen t...@wakelift.de wrote:
 ...

 Thanks, Timo!  Subroutine arg handling is an awkward but very exciting
 improvement for an old but non-expert Perl 5 user.

 Very briefly, how does one properly translate this to Perl 6:

 sub foo {my @a = @_; }

 Best,

 -Tom

That'd be equivalent to having a slurpy argument:

sub foo(*@a) { say @a }

Re: Placeholder Variable (was: Perl 6 Debugging)

2015-03-15 Thread Tom Browder 
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Timo Paulssen t...@wakelift.de wrote:
...

Thanks, Timo!  Subroutine arg handling is an awkward but very exciting
improvement for an old but non-expert Perl 5 user.

Very briefly, how does one properly translate this to Perl 6:

sub foo {my @a = @_; }

Best,

-Tom