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in thread Why am I getting "premature end of script header"?

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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Re^7: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use }
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 27, 2006 at 23:49 UTC
    Calling it with the ampersand disables the function's prototype. That's one reason to avoid using the ampersand.
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