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Re: Gratuitous use of Perl Prototypesby ysth (Canon) |
on Nov 09, 2004 at 00:29 UTC ( [id://406242]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
sub PUSH {perlsub say: Subroutines whose names are in all upper case are reserved to the Perl core, as are modules whose names are in all lower case. A subroutine in all capitals is a loosely-held convention meaning it will be called indirectly by the run-time system itself, usually due to a triggered event. Subroutines that do special, pre-defined things include AUTOLOAD, CLONE, DESTROY plus all functions mentioned in perltie and PerlIO::via.
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