From: Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>
Subject: Re: I find the perl syntax easier than python
Message-ID: <slrnf3kk1c.hl5.abigail@alexandra.abigail.be>
Date: 03 May 2007 21:12:37 GMT

David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) (dformosa@usyd.edu.au) wrote on
MMMMCMXCIII September MCMXCIII in <URL:news:slrnf3kk20.o5h.dformosa@localhost.localdomain>:
^^  On 03 May 2007 19:21:12 GMT, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:
^^  
^^ > In Perl5, you aren't tempted to use named variables, so you get
^^ > your arguments in an array. And given an array, it's natural to
^^ > allow a variable number of arguments:
^^ >
^^ >
^^ >     sub addprint {my $sum = 0; $sum += $_ for @_; print $sum, "\n"}
^^  
^^  So you do something like this
^^  
^^  sub addprint (*@num) { say [+] @num };


Yeah, but that's only on the second try. ;-)


Abigail
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