sundialsvc4:

“Ahem ... this is where ‘history’ becomes ‘awkard.’”

Most likely, you are entirely-accustomed to languages in which, “the proper declaration of ‘a subroutine which had no parameters’” would, as an ordinary matter-of-course, be followed by “a positive affirmation of that fact,” e.g.: “( )”.

Furthermore, you would “ordinarily” expect that the compiler would “process all of the declarations within a particular file,” without specific regard to exactly where, within that file, those declarations actually occurred.

And so, given that all of these presumptions are, in one sense, “perfectly reasonable,” the Perl language is not like that.   That is to say, Perl’s (quite deliberate) interpretation of “the syntax that you’re used to” is not exactly the same as “what you’re used to.”

And yet, “Perl’s legendary interpretation,” although very different, is, in fact, equally valid . . .

flush worthy claptrap

In reply to Re^2: why does location of function matter? by Anonymous Monk
in thread why does location of function matter? by smartyollie

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