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Well, if you had a situation like this: sub name { ... } somefunc(name => '122323223') would the existence of the name sub cause problems with the hash?
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Re: Re: Re: Named Parameters - Dashes or No?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 24, 2003 at 19:37 UTC

    Try it to see what happens. Try it with B::Deparse to see what Perl thinks it is.

    It turns out that the fat comma autoquotes the preceding bareword. No problem; that's what you want.

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