On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 12:30:36AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Adding a dummy sub greet {} illicits the predictable "subroutine
> redefined" warning. Thus,
>
> sub greet {}
> { no warnings;
> *main::greet = sub { print "Hello ", shift };
> }
> greet "world";
>
> Is there some way to avoid these contortions, aside from acceding to the
> paren monster?
gamma:/tmp $ cat greet
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
sub greet; # pre-declare, don't pre-define
*main::greet = sub { print "Hello ", shift };
greet "world";
gamma:/tmp $ perl greet
Hello worldgamma:/tmp $
Or am I missing something?? (I thought you mentioned prototypes somewhere?).
--
Chris Benson
