Re: named arguments

Regarding the style, what's wrong with just using plain lowercase words? I personally don't like the Tk style; I just do my_sub(name => 'bob', color => 'blue', flavor => 'cherry'). Can the names clash with symbols if you use the double arrow operator? I haven't had any problems; the double arrow stringifies the word on its left.

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Re^2: named arguments by Beechbone (Friar) on Nov 24, 2004 at 13:34 UTC
I designed the named parameters to start with a '-' in our current project---biggest mistake I could make. `sub foo { my ($self, $params) = __params({ -a => '...', }, \@_); ... if ($params->{a}) {` [download] You see the mistake above? Happend all the time, until I was forced to add this to __params(): `foreach my $key (keys %$result) { my $tkey = $key; $tkey =~ s/^-//; $result->{$tkey} = $result->{$key}; } return $result; }` [download] _Search, Ask, ^Know	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: named arguments
by Beechbone (Friar) on Nov 24, 2004 at 13:34 UTC

sub foo {
  my ($self, $params) = __params({
    -a => '...',
  }, \@_);
  ...
  if ($params->{a}) {
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  foreach my $key (keys %$result) {
    my $tkey = $key; $tkey =~ s/^-//;
    $result->{$tkey} = $result->{$key};
  }
  return $result;
}
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