Brethern

Until recently, I've written calls to my subroutines with an ampersand, e.g. 

@livesys = sort &Con::liveones;

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But Perl Best Practices (p 175) sez Call subroutines with parentheses but without a leading &

I'm running a decrepit Perl, for reasons beyond my control - (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 4) and this may be part of my problem, but when I write 

@livesys = sort Con::liveones();

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I get an empty array. I can work around this (starting with 'If its not broke dont fix it' - leaving the code alone. Or putting the result in a temporary variable, etc.) But what's the Best Practice way?

throop

In reply to Dropping the ampersand by throop

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