On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Sam Tregar wrote:

> > >> sub display_questions(@refs)
> > >
> > > Hey, that's not Perl!  Actually, that looks a bit like the proposed syntax
> > > for Perl 6...  Are you from the future?
> >
> > Funny, it seemed to work for me.
>
> Yeesh, you're right it does!  It looks like Perl thinks that it's a valid
> prototype.  I think this is a bug in Perl...

Yes, it was - and I fixed it!  This will cause a compile-time error in
Perl 5.8.  The problem was that the prototype checker was stopping once
it got what it wanted - the first '@' signaling a list prototype.

-sam


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