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in thread Function Prototypes

I do encourage you to read the link AnomalousMonk provided: Far More than Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Prototypes in Perl -- by Tom Christiansen. Prototypes as argument checking is nearly always a mistake, no lie.

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Re^4: Function Prototypes
by KimberTLE (Initiate) on Nov 25, 2015 at 02:21 UTC
    Thanks! Own it, and I've read it. But messing with "named arguments" raised the question in my mind, "how would you prototype something like this?" And after too many sleepless millennia, I relented and had to ask! But kind of like... 
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    Once you've written it, the correct answer eludes you forever. Again, thanks for supplying the two-by-four. Greatly appreciated!
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