Hey!

I was just about to the second time try to write a question here:

"Why do I get mask ealier declaration when I don't really do a declaration."

Then it suddenly struck me that in the utterly whiny error message that the line numbers was not in order so I fixed the small stuff in line number ordering. Suddenly my error disappeared and all was well.

I "ask this question" mostly because I am a beginner and I bet this will be a problem for other beginners (so reading this for them might help). The fix was btw that I didn't use parentatheses in the function call:

validate_dir $conf{'base'};

was corrected to

validate_dir($conf{'base'});

Ofcourse, as a beginner, I don't understand why I have to use them here when I usually don't but perl is complaining (atleast today, on my computer; it probably haven't sleept too well; because it can't be me who are in error, can it :-) so adding them helps.

Regards

Aquaplanet

In reply to [beginner is learning] How comes before I ask a question here, it is answered by aquaplanet

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