Re: What does this error actually mean?

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Aug 17, Daniel Falkenberg said:

>called too early to check prototype at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/GD/Graph/Map.pm line 366

All standard error messages can be explained by looking in the perldiag
documentation, or by including 'use diagnostics' in your program, or by
piping the error messages to the 'splain' program.

(W prototype) You've called a function that has a prototype before the
parser saw a definition or declaration for it, and Perl could not check
that the call conforms to the prototype.  You need to either add an
early prototype declaration for the subroutine in question, or move the
subroutine definition ahead of the call to get proper prototype
checking.  Alternatively, if you are certain that you're calling the
function correctly, you may put an ampersand before the name to avoid
the warning.  See L<perlsub>.

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