Re^9: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters

Yes, you did. I was complaining about having to call a sub as follows

  foo(100,undef,undef,undef,"bar");
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when in fact this can be shortened to

  foo(100,,,,"bar");
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However, as was pointed out by some kind monk, you're left to worry about counting commas, since ,,,, looks a lot like ,,,,, from a distance.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^10: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by blazar (Canon) on May 19, 2008 at 19:35 UTC
when in fact this can be shortened to No, it can't! I was saying that sometimes I would like it to. Apologies if I didn't make it clear enough. `--` ~~If you can't understand the incipit, then please check the IPB Campaign.~~	[reply] [d/l]
Re^10: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters by holli (Abbot) on May 19, 2008 at 19:25 UTC
Reread the post. `C:\camelbox\bin>perl -e "sub foo{ print join '#',@_; } foo(1,,,,,2);" 1#2` [download] holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]