proto-type sub needs new ribbon ?

[stu7]

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With Perl 5.6, I'm trying to use prototypes and a new
subroutine...

sub testproto($) { subroutine here }

With this, I tried to use the actual "prototype" call...

prototype testproto ;
and I also tried
print prototype testproto;

however, the subroutine output seems unaffected regardless of
what parameters are sent... $a or @Arr... and the prototype command
doesnt seem to return anything at all.

Am I using these correctly, or isnt prototyping of this kind
working in Perl yet ?

 

[Brian Harnish]

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With Perl 5.6, I'm trying to use prototypes and a new
subroutine...

sub testproto($) { subroutine here }

With this, I tried to use the actual "prototype" call...

prototype testproto ;
and I also tried
print prototype testproto;

however, the subroutine output seems unaffected regardless of
what parameters are sent... $a or @Arr... and the prototype command
doesnt seem to return anything at all.

Am I using these correctly, or isnt prototyping of this kind
working in Perl yet ?

Try posting some real code so the rest of us can see your exact problem!

#!perl -wl
use strict;
sub mypush(\@@) {return @_}
print "Version: $]";
print prototype \&mypush;
my@x=(1..5);
print mypush(@x,3,4,5)
__END__

I get this:
Version: 5.006001
\@@
ARRAY(0x8100010)345

Seems to work fine to me.

- Brian
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