Hey Forum!

My first post here is appropriately themed as I am asking about how to start up a perl programme.

I have been dabbling in perl for about a year, but recently started to get into it more seriously (albeit strictly as a hobbyist). I come from a self-taught C++/ASM background and so the freeform nature of perl is quite a culture shock. Specifically I find it hard to mentally deal with the lack of a perl version of main()

Is it acceptable to cobble-together a sort of jury-rigged main() by enclosing my 'entry-point' code in something like:

sub main_routine(){
...
}

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and then as the first line of code in the programme call:

&main_routine();

I say 'acceptable' because I can't help thinking imposing that kind of structure on to perl might turn around and bite me somewhere sensitive in the future!

In reply to creating a perl entry-point by morelenmir

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