But there should be no problem passing a reference to an arbitrarily complex data structure as the parameter of a named parameter and then accessing the data in any legal way

Well it's insofar a problem that it's more complicated and unintuitive.

Would you preferre to use HTML this way?  <tag="a" name="anchor" ... >

"There should be no problem" to use a workaround is good argument to abandon Perl for the sake of a more primitive language.

Me, I can perfectly imagine a case where I'd like to pass anonymous functions with parameters (e.g to use as defaults):

doit ( \&func1 => [para1, para2], \&func2 => [para7, para4] )

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Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^13: Preferred technique for named subroutine parameters? by LanX
in thread Preferred technique for named subroutine parameters? by Anonymous Monk

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