in reply to Re: Thoughts on the magicality of @_ and $_
in thread Thoughts on the magicality of @_ and $_

Yes, Perl 6 gets named parameters, and the ability to truly parse subs as builtins (except perhaps the current print FILEHANDLE LIST semantics).

print FILEHANDLE LIST will be gone. FILEHANDLE.print(LIST) (or print FILEHANDLE : LIST) is the new syntax, as filehandles are objects.

IFF I understand correctly. 

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Re: Re: Re: Thoughts on the magicality of @_ and $_
by erikharrison (Deacon) on Jun 28, 2002 at 20:26 UTC

    We use a space where a comma is expected to disambiguate between several (slightly obscure) constructs. For example, indirect object notation. Of course, this is totally supportable with the lexical parsing rules changes (yum). However, the language doesn't seem to directly support user defined methods using this trick themselves.

    Cheers,
    Erik

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