Re^5: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"?

Aye, the &subroutine; style is optional in any modern perl. I can't recall what version that changed in, but it was a fairly long time ago.

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Re^6: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use } by lokiloki (Beadle) on Nov 27, 2006 at 23:24 UTC
I suppose using the & was helpful to me also because it let me know when I was calling something i had personally created, versus calling a builtin function or something from another module...	[reply]
Re^7: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use } by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 27, 2006 at 23:49 UTC
Calling it with the ampersand disables the function's prototype. That's one reason to avoid using the ampersand.	[reply]