(tye)Re: Is it there, or is it not?? Quirkiness with error handling.

Note that you are confusing &mysub; and &mysub(); which are very different. (tye)Re: A question of style goes into these in some detail.

As for avoiding & on subroutine calls, that is, to a great extent, a style issue. Frankly, several of the reasons for using & on subroutine calls (avoid collisions with built-ins, stylistically distinguish user subs from built-ins, uniformity of sigils with other common user-defined items) are much more compelling to me than any of the reasons for not using them: "looks like Perl4" (big deal), "overrides prototypes" (don't use prototypes in most cases).

So I strongly disagree with Aristotle on that point.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: (tye)Re: Is it there, or is it not?? Quirkiness with error handling. by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Jul 18, 2002 at 19:45 UTC
Whoops! That was a typo! Instead of removing the `()` from `&mysub()`, I did just the opposite and removed the `&`. In *real* code, the compiler usually catches stuff like this ... :) dmm	[reply] [d/l] [select]