Re^2: Genome UV Mutation Script -- Critique

Why use a prototype here? And why take a reference to the string?

sub count_possible_mutation_locations {
    return scalar ( () = $_[0] =~ /[ct](?=[ct])/g );
}
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Re^3: Genome UV Mutation Script -- Critique by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 15, 2007 at 01:42 UTC
Oh, no particular reason to in this case. Sometimes I like to do this to get a little bit of typesafety.	[reply]