jjohn writes "My interview with Perl's master of OO magic Damian Conway went live on www.Perl.com today. Enjoy."
Glad he's on our team
bradclawsie on 2000-08-25T02:32:18
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
Alex Farber on 2000-08-25T18:42:17
So, what is "the difference between an argument and a parameter"?
Re:Dumb question
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
Damian on 2000-08-31T04:29:23
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.
