in reply to "Ambiguous call" in decimal to binary conversion

You have subroutines named "unpack" and "pack" in the current package, so it doesn't know if you wanted to call the builtin pack and unpack or yours. I suggest changing the names of your "pack" and "unpack" subs, which will resolve the ambiguity.

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Re: Re: "Ambiguous call" in decimal to binary conversion
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 29, 2004 at 12:57 UTC

    mea culpa ... I did indeed have two subs named pack and unpack -- not in the current package, but in a package being used, and written so long ago (last month) I couldn't remember what was in it.

    Thanks for the jolt

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      So why did you export pack/unpack then?
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