Perl does not have a way to define more than one subroutine with the same name. There's no dispatch based on the signature. Not that Perl is doing anything with prototypes belonging to methods - after all, prototypes are a compile-time thing, and method lookup is done at runtime.

However, you are free to inspect the arguments to subroutines, and do different things based on the number of arguments. Arguments are found in @_, using an array in scalar context gives you the number of elements, and Perl has an if-then-elsif-else construct, which gives you all the building blocks to do what you want.

Abigail

In reply to Re: Multiple Prototypes for Object Constructor by Abigail-II
in thread Multiple Prototypes for Object Constructor by arunhorne

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