Course of Raku / Essentials / Functions essentials / Creating and calling functions

Positional parameters

The order of function parameters is important. For example, create a function that computes the difference between two numbers:

sub diff($a, $b) { $a - $b }

It is obvious that the result of calling diff(10, 20) differs from diff(20, 10).

Parameters that are listed as a comma-separated list like in the function above are called positional. Their meaning depends on the order in which the arguments are passed to the function when it is called.

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