in reply to Re^3: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - &subroutine calling style
in thread Why am I getting "premature end of script header"?

thank you... so the takeaway message is that I should call subroutines via subroutine; and not &subroutine;? this must be a new thing? because the Perl book I have (admittedly the first edition o'reilly one) says that i should call subroutines with the ampersand...?

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Re^5: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use }
by imp (Priest) on Nov 27, 2006 at 23:21 UTC
    Aye, the &subroutine; style is optional in any modern perl. I can't recall what version that changed in, but it was a fairly long time ago.
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      I suppose using the & was helpful to me also because it let me know when I was calling something i had personally created, versus calling a builtin function or something from another module...
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        Calling it with the ampersand disables the function's prototype. That's one reason to avoid using the ampersand.
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Re^5: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use } (&sub...)
by tye (Sage) on Nov 28, 2006 at 00:49 UTC
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