Thanks for everyone's assistance, I think I have my answer. I will be looking closer at the comments.
cheers ________________________________ From: Michael Rasmussen <mich...@jamhome.us> To: beginners@perl.org Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012 11:01 PM Subject: Re: & and subroutine And for what it's worth. 113. Call subroutines with parentheses but without a leading & That's from Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices A quick reference to the 256 guidelines is found at http://refcards.com/docs/vromansj/perl-best-practices/refguide.pdf And a bit of luck, the entire chapter on subroutines, including the many reasons to prefer () to & is online: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Perl/Subroutines-in-Perl/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: The difference betwee a million and a billion is the difference between a sip of wine and 30 seconds with your daughter, and a bottle of gin and a night with her. ~ XKCD http://xkcd.com/558/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
