Re: RFC 118 (v1) lvalue subs: parameters, explicit assignment, andwantarray() changes

[email protected] (Damian Conway) Thu, 24 Aug 2000 08:32:43 +1000 (EST)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.subs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   > I would have assumed that a pre/post/invariant would not be used regularly,
   > but rather under optional control. So this would lose that feature.

The option is to opt out of preconditions, not opt in.

Besides, I intend to propose an attribute that makes them un-opt-out-able:

	sub new { bless {}, $_[0] }
	sub x   { lreturn $_[0]->{x} }
	post x : mandatory  { $_[0]->{x} >= 0 }

Damian