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in reply to New Perl Certification

From the list of "things to know":

Subroutines

Understand all legal means of parameter passing, including named parameters and references.

Since when does Perl5 have named parameters?!? Does this certification cover Perl6 as well?!?

I'm confused! :-(

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Re^2: New Perl Certification
by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 14, 2005 at 21:37 UTC
    That's probably sloppy terminology for key/value pairs being passed as a flattened hash. But if that's the terminology, then the test is flawed, because that terminology is obviously not universal.

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