I only did that because that's how Jaspersan called the function. Personally, i hate prefixing function calls with the ampersand unless i am taking a reference to them, as you can probably tell from the rest of the code i posted.

However, tye has chastised me for this, and i understand why - because it distinguishes your functions from Perl's internal functions. Parens are not enough:

print "Hello World!\n";
print("Hello World!\n");
&print("Hello World?\n");

sub print {
   print "yo!\n";
}
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jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)