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Comment by jstanley

2 days ago

> I don't miss perls halfarsed function args.

You mean you don't like writing things like...

    sub foo {
        my ($a, $b, $c) = shift;

?

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KaiserPro  2 days ago

Indeed!

It just grinds my gears that _I_ need to check to see if the caller has given me all the required bits. That seems like something the language should do.

I understand that it does give you a lot of flexibility, but Hnnnnnnnnn

(from what I recall object oriented perl doesn't give you this flexibility, but I'm not sure, as I never really did it. )

  • jstanley  2 days ago

    Object oriented perl gives you exactly the same flexibility.

    If you have a module called "My::Module", and you call "My::Module->some_method", then you'd implement that like:

        sub some_method {
        my ($pkg, @args) = @_;

    i.e. the module gets passed (as a string) as the first argument. You can then call

        $pkg->some_other_method;

    And similarly, if you have an object "$foo" you would call it like "$foo->some_other_method" and implement it as:

        sub some_method {
        my ($self, @args) = @_;

    i.e. the object gets passed as the first argument. And you can call "$self->some_other_method" with it.

    A minimal class is just:

        package My::Module;

    sub new {
        my ($pkg, %opts) = @_;

        my $self = bless \%opts, $pkg;

        return $self;
    }

    1;

    Don't let them tell you you need Moo or Moose or Mouse or fields.pm. Hand-rolled objects is the way :)

oneshtein  2 days ago 

  Yes, I hate to write

  sub foo($$$) {
    my ($a, $b, $c) = @_;
  }

Where @_ is array of arguments, and ($$$) is function prototype (3 scalars are expected).

  • AndrewDavis  2 days ago

    Perl has subroutine signatures now. You can write

    sub foo ($x, $y, $x) { ...}

    It's just syntactic sugar, so you still can't pass in multiple lists, and the list must be the final parameter.

AndrewDavis  2 days ago

Not sure if you've deliberately put in two bugs there haha

1. shift only shifts off the first element.

2. (if classify this as a bug) using $a and $b are frowned upon because they're the default variables when using sort.