Re^4: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"?

in reply to Re^3: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - &subroutine calling style
in thread Why am I getting "premature end of script header"?

thank you... so the takeaway message is that I should call subroutines via subroutine; and not &subroutine;? this must be a new thing? because the Perl book I have (admittedly the first edition o'reilly one) says that i should call subroutines with the ampersand...?

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Re^5: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use } by imp (Priest) on Nov 27, 2006 at 23:21 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l]
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]
Re^5: Why am I getting "premature end of script header"? - eval { use } (&sub...) by tye (Sage) on Nov 28, 2006 at 00:49 UTC
Please see (tye)Re: A question of style. - tye	[reply]

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