That's one of my complaints too. But, you can use this kind of trick to get around it and make your code more readable: sub pretty_print { my ($filename

That's one of my complaints too. But, you can use this kind of trick to get around it and make your code more readable: sub pretty_print { my ($filename, $text, $text_width) = @_; Not as good as if it was just built into the language itself but better then the alternative.