How would prototypes help? All that does is allow for some syntactic sugar. It doesn't deal with the problems
FoxtrotUniform mentioned. In addition, Perl5 doesn't really have solid support for lists, and arrays are not lists. Perl6 will deal with it better, by allowing you to pass lists to a function, but Perl5 requires you to deal with array references, which is just another hack.
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