el_seano | is there ever a good reason to omit ampersands from subroutine invocations? |
* el_seano | <- noob |
mauke | wrong question |
archon- | always |
mauke | is there ever a good reason to add ampersands to subroutine calls? |
archon- | almost never |
el_seano | it seems like a nice touch to include the sigil so there's no ambiguity |
rindolf | el_seano: http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#ampersand-in-subroutine-calls |
Yaakov | Ampersands are among the coolest punctuation marks & add their coolness to everything they are used for. |
mauke | el_seano: what ambiguity? |
apeiron | foo() # pretty unambiguous |
archon- | &Yaakov& |
* rindolf | prefers ampersors. |
rindolf | Or ampernots. |
Yaakov | AmperSnot |
archon- | amberbuts |
archon- | amber? |
archon- | amperbuts! |
el_seano | :D |
Yaakov | ampersif |
tybalt89 | ampersand followed by amperbuff and amperpolish... |
Yaakov | amperbeadblast |