in reply to Re^2: Is there any difference between prototype % and @ ?
in thread Is there any difference between prototype % and @ ?

... an even number of arguments...
I will add a manual check.

What are you doing with the arguments subsumed under the  % prototype? Well, right now you're probably just writing test code to check the behavior of the prototype, but in a 'real world' case, would you not assign these arguments to a hash? What else? If assigning an odd number of elements to a hash, Perl warns (if warnings are enabled) with no separate check necessary. Granted, the warning doesn't stem from the prototype checking system, but... 

>perl -wMstrict -le
"sub H (&%) { my ($cr, %h) = @_;  $cr->(%h); }
 ;;
 H { print @_; } qw(a 1 b);
"
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at -e line 1.
Use of uninitialized value $_[3] in print at -e line 1.
a1b

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Re^4: Is there any difference between prototype % and @ ?
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 22, 2013 at 20:52 UTC
    not in this case, cause I want to have it as fast and memory saving as possible.

    thats why I'm splicing... though using indexes $_[$i] should be even faster...

    just check the post I linked in the OP

    Cheers Rolf

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      not in this case, cause I want to have it as fast and memory saving as possible.

      Then why create a list from the hash in the first place?

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        > Then why create a list from the hash in the first place?

        It's meant to be compatible with the standard interface!

        You might remember that map, sort and grep can be chained and they always accept and return lists...

        Cheers Rolf

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