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It enables you to create functions that behave like length, for example. 
print prototype 'CORE::length';

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Re^2: Prototype (_)?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 04, 2014 at 12:27 UTC

    I know what it is meant to do; I just don't get from the description how to use it.

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