It appears that is the closest possible syntax fro what I want to do,
I suppose if I'm going to write in perl I'll just have to get over
wanting to do things the way I like and embrace the way perl does
things, although I'll likely never understand why anyone would rather
have shorter code than more readable code.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org> wrote:
>> 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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