Update: Scratch that, reap the post, call me a fool. I should have invoked perl with the -l switch. The behavior is consistent. I dinn' catch the string "bug!" just in front of the shell prompt.

Update: changed title

Dear fellow monks,

playing with prototypes for a future perl talk at $work, I stumbled over the following (perl v5.14.3): 

# file proto.pl
sub fn($);
fn("no bug.");
sub fn (\@) {
    print while $_ = shift;
}
__END__
Prototype mismatch: sub main::fn ($) vs (\@) at proto.pl line 6.

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That's fine and expected.
However, if the parameter list @_ isn't altered via shift, the fatal error is turned into a warning: 

# file proto.pl
sub fn($);
fn("bug!");
sub fn (\@) {
    print $_,$/ for @_;
}
__END__
Prototype mismatch: sub main::fn ($) vs (\@) at proto.pl line 6.
bug!

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Would you consider that a bug, and if so, is it worth reporting?

In reply to yet another prototype bug? (not, please ignore) by shmem

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