AFAIK you should not be forced to use prototypes anywhere where you didn't in 5.004.

Two things that will help you find the cause of the problem:

1. Search on the exact error message in google, for instance, and/or use the diagnostics module. Searching on google will have the advantage that it will probably also explain error messages that aren't caused by perl, since perl doesn't generate any warning/error like the one you've posted here.

2. If that doesn't work, post the exact error message here and include (some of) the code that demonstrates the problem.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Forced to Use Subroutine Prototypes by Joost
in thread Forced to Use Subroutine Prototypes by Anonymous Monk

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