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Re: Expunge implicit @_ passing

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From:
Damian Conway
Date:
August 12, 2001 15:09
Subject:
Re: Expunge implicit @_ passing
Message ID:
200108122208.IAA27661@indy05.csse.monash.edu.au
   > When foo() is called as &foo with no parens and no arguments, it
   > inherits @_ from it's caller.
   > I can't think of any reason why this feature is useful anymore, and it
   > can be a really confusing behavior, so what say we kill it in Perl 6?

It's alreday scheduled for termination.

In Perl 6, the expression C<&foo> returns a reference to the C<foo> subroutine.

Damian
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