Re: Forcing Compile Time Checking That Subs Exist

Call the function without parens. When you use the module, the functions get defined at compile-time.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: Re: Forcing Compile Time Checking That Subs Exist by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Jun 04, 2001 at 23:40 UTC
Removing the parentheses when calling "referrer()" instead of the properly (for CGI.pm) spelled referer() seems to have no effect. Perl only catches the error at runtime.	[reply]
(tye)Re: Forcing Compile Time Checking That Subs Exist by tye (Sage) on Jun 04, 2001 at 23:47 UTC
japhy's suggestion only works if you are importing the functions from CGI and not using the OO interface. - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]