in reply to Wanted feature in perl 6

What advantage would that achieve? that isnt catered for by either references or just lists 

myfoo(\%hash1);
myfoo2(%hash2);

sub myfoo {
    my $ref = shift;
    my %hash = %{ $ref }; #longwinded i know
}

sub myfoo2 {
    my %flibble = @_;
}

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RE: RE: Wanted feature in perl 6
by tvakah (Novice) on Aug 04, 2000 at 21:27 UTC
    The reasion I had in mind is as follows: 
    process( text => 'this is some text' );
process( file => 'foo' );

sub process { my $text;
 if( defined $_{'text'} ) {
  $text = $_{'text'};
 } elsif( defined $_{'file'} ) {
  local $/;
  open IN, $_{'file'};
  $text = <IN>;
  close IN;
 } else { die "Usage"; }
 #proccess $text and return result
}

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    It allows a gretaer amout of flexibility in the calling of your sub.
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      Oh, quite neat idea really, cheers
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