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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by bmn__ on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @03:53PM (#31264991)
This already was available more than ten years ago, you simply had to install a module.
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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by ecef9-8c0f-4374 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:23PM (#31265353)
I used to use perl5i for scripting, which had func().

Point is. As soon as I tell someone "you have to use tarball/cpan/cpanplus/cpanminus to install the feature "named parameters" they leave.

But now it's here

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