Chris Wagner wrote: > I *always* call my own defined functions/subroutines with the & prefix. > It's just good practice. Allowing the & to be omitted just encourages bad > programming practices.
Before the change in meaning for & I would have agreed with you, but you can't do that and expect to use prototypes and you have to be careful in the case of calling a sub with no args cause it will expose the @_ from one level above. Now, I never use & unless it has to be there for syntactic reasons - otherwise there's too much hassle trying to remember whether you used protypes or not for that function and I don't often use prototypes since little of my work is production work. Personally, I would like a warning in the situation where you redefine a core function and an easy way to override the warning when it was your intent to do so. Maybe Perl6 has this resolved - I haven't been checking in much recently. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
