Just a few general style comments. First, get into the habit of starting your programs with: 
use strict;

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at least until you understand when not to use it. I have not seen Lemay's book, but I trust it has a good explanation of use strict -- if not, discard it immediately. Second, drop the awful Perl-4 style: 
&initarg;

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function calling syntax and use the modern style: 
initarg();

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Third, lexicals are good. So replace: 
foreach $i (@_) {

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with: 
foreach my $i (@_) {

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Again, I trust Lemay describes why lexicals should generally be preferred to globals. Like the others, I recommend switching to learning perl. See merlyn's blog entry for an interesting example of a Perl beginner learning Perl in public from merlyn's excellent introductory work.

In reply to Re: Functions in Perl by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Functions in Perl by bluethundr

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