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I forget if this was covered earlier, but what is the reason for this? I can easily imagine wanting to create subroutines that only accept named parameters, some or all of which are required. How would this be done in Perl 6? Yes, I guess all the parameters could be declared as positional, and then I could scold users in the documentation to only use named parameters when calling these subroutines, but that seems silly--and dangerous, since, inevitably, some users won't listen and will use positional parameters (after looking at the source to discover the correct order, or whatever). So I'm stuck maintaining an argument order for what are (as far as I'm concerned) not positional parameters. I guess I could also die() if I'm missing a named parameter, but that seems so Perl-5-ish (i.e. "more work") So...why can't I have required named parameters? If it is due to vagaries of the parameter definition syntax and it's funny little "zones", then I say change the syntax instead of disallowing required named parameters :) -JohnThread Next