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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

posted by jjohn on 2000.08.23 15:55

jjohn writes "My interview with Perl's master of OO magic Damian Conway went live on www.Perl.com today. Enjoy."

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Glad he's on our team (Score:1)

by bradclawsie (748)

Its nice to see really insightful, brilliant people getting deeply involved with perl. His book has become the de-facto "second" perl book. I hope he keeps writing.
Dumb question (Score:1)

by Alex Farber (284)

So, what is "the difference between an argument and a parameter"?
Re:Dumb question (Score:1)

by Jeff Connelly (775)

Technically a parameter is an option or setting, for example color=gray; while an argument is a value passed to a function. Or something like that.
Re:Dumb question (Score:1)

by Damian (784)

A parameter is a variable that is to receive a value passed to a subroutine.
An argument is a value that's actually passed to a subroutine.
For example:
sub foo { print $_[0] }
foo("bar");
Here $_[0] is a parameter, whereas "bar" is an argument.