I am currently fighting with some legacy code (which I am embarrassed to say that I wrote myself) which cannot be changed.

In this file, I have a code that is equivalent to: 


package Somename;
foo(1,2,3,4,5);

sub foo($;$$) {
    my $one = shift;
    my $two = shift;
    my $three = shift;
    my $four = shift;
    my $five = shift;
    
    # long complicated code

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This works because I call foo before the subroutine is processed, so there were no flags years ago to fix it.

Today, I need this function foo in another program, so I do this: 

use Somename;
Somename::foo(1,2,3,4,5);

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And now this doesn't work because 'foo' is compiled before I call it.

Is there any chance that I could tell perl to ignore my past foolishness, and just forget that there is '($:$$)'?

Thanks, Sandy

In reply to Fighting sub foo($;$$) by Sandy

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