What are Slurpy sub parameters?
Contents An example of slurpy parameters

What are Slurpy sub parameters?

Here are all the sub parameters in Perl6 as discussed in Synopsis 6
  1. invocant params. e.g. $x:
  2. required params. e.g. $x
  3. optional params. e.g. ?$x
  4. named params. e.g. +$x
  5. list (slurpy) params e.g. *$x
Slurpy parameters are those that deconstruct a list that is passed into a sub
Slurpy Sub Parms, Multi Subs and Perl 6 Functional Programming
Terrence Brannon (2005-03-08)
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