"PySlice" with karma 25 is probably your trolling account. If not, ASK about stuff you have no clue about. It is better than looking like a little troll kid, having "fun" lowering the quality of HN by stupid language war comments.
>>where all arguments come in a flattened array
That is optional, through the power of CPAN (and kbenson's methods, of course). Examples of alternatives:
One of the cool parts of Perl is that the language is extensible, that is why it e.g. has a better OO than Python, Ruby, etc. (Or simple typing of parameter arguments, see the modules above. Or why MooseX::Declare has ... ah, look yourself, troll.)
Not half as much as any Lisp variant with good macros.
Edit: The possibility to extend your environment is generally seen as a good thing, unless you believe in cleanliness of bloo... languages for ideological reasons.
>>where all arguments come in a flattened array
That is optional, through the power of CPAN (and kbenson's methods, of course). Examples of alternatives:
http://search.cpan.org/~barefoot/Method-Signatures-20130222/...
http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX...
http://search.cpan.org/~ether/MooseX-Method-Signatures-0.44/...
(Depending on if you use Moose or not.)
One of the cool parts of Perl is that the language is extensible, that is why it e.g. has a better OO than Python, Ruby, etc. (Or simple typing of parameter arguments, see the modules above. Or why MooseX::Declare has ... ah, look yourself, troll.)