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Whether I point that out to them depends on their Perl skills and their personality.
I doubt that an (argumentative) Perl newbie is likely to "know better" than Tom Christiansen and Damian Conway on the complex issue of Perl prototypes.
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Unfortunately, as [id://720219|Beth] [id://775947|once noted]:
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In the late 1990's Justin Kruger and David Dunning did a series
of studies demonstrating that the less skillful had a tendency
to overrate their abilities and fail to recognize expertise in others.
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And I really don't want to encourage debate with <I><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010714061728/http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4700">people like this</a></I>. :)
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<B>Update:</B> The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010714061728/http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?read=4700">wayback machine url</a> for this historic argumentative bulletin board exchange seems to intermittently fail, so I'll embed bk's famous quote here. This classic quote, the inspiration for <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-USIG/">Acme::USIG</a>, is from "bk" to [davorg] after davorg had the temerity to suggest that starting Perl scripts with <C>use strict</C> was a good idea:
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No,but its true-- strict really does suck. I hate it. Its gay. Dont tell me ehat to do. And nobody wants your to be back, either.
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