Hi monks, I figured I’d share my learnings. When I rolled up to perl 5.8.20, a few of my modules gave errors. The errors pointed at the function declaration lines. I changed: 
Sub function()
{

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To: 
Sub function() {

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After making these changes, there was one more fix: 
foreach my $key qw( id group title rank )

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To: 
foreach my $key (qw( id group title rank ))

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I saw many other places where my functions were defined with the ‘{‘ on the next line. But, things were running. I wondered if I removed the “use strict”, if the function errors would go away. So, I undid the function changes. The code still worked!

This means the functions weren’t my problem at all, just the foreach line. But the compiler could not point to that line until I corrected all the functions. So, having the ‘{‘ on the same line as the sub is good coding practice, but not required for perl 5.8.20

Thanks for you help!

In reply to Re: function prototyping & perl 5.8.20 by topherv
in thread function prototyping & perl 5.8.20 by topherv

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