in reply to Re: variable reference problem
in thread variable reference problem

Hi thanks for your help.
You cleared many of my doubts.

Re: 2nd point
I dont know any difference in calling subroutine with '&' or without '&'. Can you explain me?

Thanks for the Writing Formatting link. I will follow the standards.

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Re^3: variable reference problem
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 12, 2008 at 09:42 UTC

    "&" causes Perl to ignore the sub's prototype.

    Some people use "&" to indicate a user sub, since it can only be used on subs, not on builtin functions. But I think that's a bad idea since "&" is not just decorative.

    You might be interested in reading (tye)Re: A question of style.