Re^2: Distinguish between missing and undefined arguments with subroutine signatures

[dave_the_m]

P5P is considering to drop the population of @_ when signatures are used

But only after alternative facilities for argument instrospection have been provided. See the proposal on the p5p mailing list.

In particular, in

sub foo($x,  ??$has_y, $y = 0) { ... }

$has_y is true if and only if a second arg is passed to the sub.

Dave.