in reply to Re: Optional Subroutine Arguments Like in "print FILEHANDLE LIST"
in thread Optional Subroutine Arguments Like in `print FILEHANDLE LIST`

are you sure you wanna go such exotic ways for just a little syntactic sugar?

Agreed. I certainly wouldn't embrace barewords when defining a new module's interface, as described in more detail at: Re: Indirect Object Syntax (Parsing Barewords and Quoting References)

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