Re: kanjidic parser in Perl?

"John J. Chew, III" <jjchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

| > sub kdic::parse_entry
|
| sub parse_entry ($) {
|
| Always use prototypes.

I believe this advice to be counterproductive.

Tom Christiansen once posted a nice write-up of "prototypes" in perl:

<URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.modules/msg/84484de5eb01085b >

(I believe the things he discusses under "BUGS" has been fixed in
newer perls though)


--
David,
.

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