(Ovid) Re(2): Poor Man's Perl6 Exegesis (you get what you pay for)

sub foo( @bar ){...}
&foo( "a", "b" );
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As I read things, yes, this is an error. The flattening star will be necessary to slurp up the rest of the goodies. I suspect that this is going to be a source of bugs for many people switching to Perl6. Also, I suspect the following will trip people up:

@*ARGS; # was @ARGV
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The star between the sigil and the variable name, I believe, is how we will now be referring to special globals. Thus, @*ARGS != @ARGS.

Cheers,
Ovid

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Re: (Ovid) Re(2): Poor Man's Perl6 Exegesis (you get what you pay for) by BrentDax (Hermit) on Jan 27, 2002 at 11:06 UTC
Not true. @ARGS and @ARGS are the same thing, unless you define a new @ARGS in your scope. If that happens, you can still access the global @ARGS as @ARGS. =cut --Brent Dax There is no sig.	[reply]