In addition, as  convertCitifile2Dataset() is invoked as a class method, its prototype is completely ignored.

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"package Foo;
 sub foo ($;$) { print qq{(@_)}; }
 ;;
 package main;
 Foo->foo;
 Foo->foo();
 Foo->foo(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
"
(Foo)
(Foo)
(Foo 1 2 3 4 5 6)
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