Re^3: Announcing Perl 7

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I really hope they won't introduce the experimental function signatures, since they lack named arguments.

That's strange. Why would you block a thing which is considered useful by quite a few Perlers only because some feature isn't available right now? Wouldn't it be better to suggest a parseable syntax how to write named arguments?

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Re^4: Announcing Perl 7 by LanX (Saint) on Jun 24, 2020 at 21:17 UTC
As soon as it is official, it'll be very hard to introduce named arguments. I don't care a lot about most of the fancy stuff Dave wants to implement, but "named args" are crucial. IMHO 10% of the extra effort but 90% of the benefit. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^5: Announcing Perl 7 by Aaronrp (Scribe) on Jul 03, 2020 at 20:56 UTC
So perhaps a more positive way of putting it would be "I hope they wait until named arguments are working before they make it official." I would agree with that.	[reply]

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