You say that I'm far better off not using prototypes here. What makes you say that in this case?

The code expects two hashrefs. While a prototype of \%\% might arguably be better, I don't see an advantage to not having any prototype in this case. Moreover, I do see a disadvantage in that if somebody mistakenly passes something other than the required two and only two arguments, the error won't be caught at compile time.

Thanks for any enlightenment you can share.

Tom Moertel : Blog / Talks / CPAN / LectroTest / PXSL / Coffee / Movie Rating Decoder

In reply to Re^3: Multiple loop variable in foreach statement by tmoertel
in thread Multiple loop variable in foreach statement by tc1364

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