> I'm working on a perl script, and I have a lot more experience in ruby
> than I do in perl.  As far as I can tell there is no way to explicitly
> define arguments for a subroutine in perl, for example
> 
> sub addNums(number1, number2) {
>   sum = number1 + number2;
> 
>   return sum;
> }
> 
> rather than
> 
> sub addNums {
>   number1 = shift;
>   number2 = shift;
>   sum = number1 + number2;
> 
>   return sum;
> }
> 
> is there anyway to do this, and if not does anyone have some advice on
> a way to make this a bit more readable in perl?

It's been a while since I programmed in perl.  I currently use python
after going through a long ruby phase.

However, I think the canonical way to do it is:

sub addNums($$) {
  my ($number1, $number2) = @_;
  my $sum = $number1 + $number2;

  return $sum;
}

-Dale
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