Eugene Kosov wrote:
> John W. Krahn wrote:
>>> Following is the subroutine for moving the file
>>>
>>> sub copyFile($$) {
>>
>> Your subroutine _moves_ files, it does not _copy_ files, so why is it
>> named
>> 'copyFile'? You really, really shouldn't use prototypes. If you need to
>> verify the number of arguments you could do something like:
>>
>> sub moveFile {
>> unless ( @_ == 2 ) {
>> warn 'Sub moveFile expected 2 arguments but was called with '
>> . @_ . "
>> arguments.\n";
>> return;
>> }
>>
> First of all, sorry for barging into your conversation. Why Sonika
> shouldn't use prototypes? Actualy I don't use prototypes too but I don't
> realy know what's wrong with them.
This article should help explain prototypes in Perl:
http://library.n0i.net/programming/perl/articles/fm_prototypes/
John
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