perlquestion
myocom
<p>This may be better placed as a [Meditations|Meditation], but here goes...</p>
<p>It is written in <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlstyle.html">perlstyle</a>, "Call your subroutines as if they were functions or list operators to avoid excessive ampersands and parentheses."</p>
<p>Personally, I like using the ampersands for my functions and subs because it serves as a visual cue that it's my code being executed and not a built-in function or somesuch. However, I have heard other people refer to ampersands as being Perl4-ish and generally unnecessary in this day and age.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts? I await enlightenment.</p>