From: Michele Dondi <bik.mido@tiscalinet.it>
Subject: Re: I find the perl syntax easier than python
Message-ID: <g7lk33h51ljljhsi7p83g7qhfmj120n6de@4ax.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 23:41:26 +0200

On 03 May 2007 19:21:12 GMT, Abigail <abigail@abigail.be> wrote:

>\\    sub addprint ($n,$m) { say $n+$m }  # ?
>
>And this is an advantage? Limiting yourself to two arguments?

Well, you know perfectly well that this is an *artificial* example to
mimic the OP's one. But yes, it's there for those cases in which I
*do* want to limit myself to two arguments, and perhaps type check
them.

>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

I can't believe you're implicitly assuming that those guys aren't
thinking of letting you do that in Perl 6 too, and more.

>allow a variable number of arguments:
>
>    sub addprint {my $sum = 0; $sum += $_ for @_; print $sum, "\n"}

Funny, in Perl 6 that could be

    sub addprint {say [+] @_}


Michele
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