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is this: $q = CGI->new(\&hook [,$data [,$use_tempfile]]); valid Perl?
Yes!
Although it is not literal perl. The first argument "\&hook" is a reference to the subroutine "hook".
The second argument is optional, and thus enclosed in [ and ] characters, and similarly the last argument is optional.
So you could call it in three ways:
# just one argument. $q = CGI->new(\&hook); # two arguments. $q = CGI->new(\&hook ,$data ); # all three - party time! $q = CGI->new(\&hook ,$data, $use_tempfile);
Under Unix-like systems there is a convention that optional arguments are enclosed in "[" and "]" characters. For a simple example of that try readng "man ls" which has the following output:
ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
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