Re: Poor Man's Perl6 Exegesis (you get what you pay for)

[mikfire]

I am uncertain if I should update my previous node or not. As I am attacking a seperate portion of this, I believe I am correct in making a new node.

sub myimport($exp_from : *@symbols=() : *@options=())

What does this do? I have been over the related Apocalypse and Exegesis ( part 3 ) and I think the idea here is to allow myimport to be called with lists instead of arrays.

According to TheDamian in Exegesis 3, page 1, the @ will cause perl6 to expect either an array or an array reference as the parameter. If we were to declare a perl6 sub like this:

sub foo( @bar )

and called it like this:

&foo( "a", "b" );

we would generate an error ( at compile time? ).

If we really want foo to be called with a list, we need to put the flattening star in the sub definition:

sub foo( *@bar )

But, later on in the same tome, we are told that this will have the standard perl5 affect of slurping the remainder of the parameters.

I am guessing this to be an error on BrentDax's part. I believe BrentDax was attempting to allow myimport to be called with lists, but forgot that the flattening star would behave exactly as we expect from perl5. If I have missed something, I would really appreciate being corrected.

update: Changed a bit of wording in the last paragraph. Mik
mikfire

[Ovid]

sub foo( @bar ){...}
&foo( "a", "b" );

As I read things, yes, this is an error. The flattening star will be necessary to slurp up the rest of the goodies. I suspect that this is going to be a source of bugs for many people switching to Perl6. Also, I suspect the following will trip people up:

@*ARGS; # was @ARGV

The star between the sigil and the variable name, I believe, is how we will now be referring to special globals. Thus, @*ARGS != @ARGS.

Cheers,
Ovid

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[BrentDax]

Not true. @*ARGS and @ARGS are the same thing, unless you define a new @ARGS in your scope. If that happens, you can still access the global @ARGS as @*ARGS.

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--Brent Dax
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