Now, since I am a relative new-bee when it comes to some of this stuff, careful before you --.

I have a couple questions about mod_perl's way of declaring functions. I've noticed a couple differences between CGI and mod_perl. Noted below:

sub cgi_sub(){
   print $_[0];
}

sub mod_perl_sub {
   print $_[0];
}

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The real question here is with the ()'s. Do I need them for a cgi script? I know I could try it without, and it'll work. So maybe the real-real question here is, can somebody explain what happens to $_ and @_ when you have a empty ()'s in the declration of a function?

This stemmed when I had a script that would run perfectly as a cgi script. When ported to mod_perl, I had left the ()'s and the fuctions wheren't recieving paramaters properly.

Maybe I'm crazy and completly missing something ELSE, but it couldnt hurt to ask. :)

I guess I'm just curious, and well, curious.

_14k4 - webmaster@poorheart.com (www.poorheart.com)

In reply to mod_perl and function declrations by one4k4

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