On Sep 7, Paul Johnson said:
>> what does &extra' mean? or for example &extra'itemstotalbe(scalar,
>> @colwith)
>
>' is the old (pre Perl 5) way of writing :: - it is obsolete
Borrowed from Ada (regretably, I believe).
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