On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 07:33 , John W. Krahn wrote:
>> sub MySub ($first, $second, @rest) { ... } [..] >> sub MySub($$@) { >> my( $first, $second, @rest ) = @_; >> ... >> } > > > They both do the same thing although the second version may be faster > (You would have to benchmark to be sure.) > well traditionally I have "always" done them in the form sub MySub { my( $first, $second, @rest ) = @_; ... } and had not thought about the more 'c' code style form of having a 'signature' in any way - but thought it might be a better idea of have the signature??? One friend when I dug out some of our old stuff mentioned that this was an 'old way' of doing it - almost on the order of being 'deprecated' - so I thought I would check. I clearly think that cracking out the use Benchmark may be the best 'answer' for this problem... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]