Re: prototypes: so many \@'s?

There is no such hack I know of. What I've seen on CPAN (in List::MoreUtils, for instance) is attempts to allow "enough" arguments:

sub each_array (\@;\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@\@) {
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That seems to be the dissatisfactory state of the art in this respect.

Anno

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Re^2: prototypes: so many \@'s? by dk (Chaplain) on Apr 03, 2007 at 21:53 UTC
Indeed. I also found the "enough" syntax, but it looked so wrong that I didn't even dare to ask about it. Thanks++ for the answer anyway.	[reply]
Re^3: prototypes: so many \@'s? by Anno (Deacon) on Apr 03, 2007 at 22:14 UTC
I happen to know the author of List::MoreUtils Usenet-wise and I know he'd search far and wide before letting this uglines stand in a module. If there was a better solution, Tassilo would have found it. Anno	[reply]


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