in reply to prototypes: so many \@'s?
Even if you are aware, maybe it is good to remember: "Don't use prototypes". Except in a very small number of cases of restricted utility (like ($$) prototyped functions used with sort), they don't do what you want (unless you're very weirdo to match the craziness of Perl prototype semantics).
One example:
sub foo ($$) { $_[0] + $_[1] } # add two scalar args :) foo(1,2) @a = (1,2); foo(@a); # death !! not enough arguments @b1 = (2); @b2 = (3); foo(@b1,@b2) # 2 !?!? = scalar @b1 + scalar @b2
And don't take my words. Tom Christiansen said that a long time ago and Damian Conway said more about it in "Perl Best Practices".
That said, maybe you may get the behavior you want with a module like Params::Validate. See the docs with a special attention to the section on "Callback Validation":
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Re^2: prototypes: so many \@'s?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 03, 2007 at 21:07 UTC |
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