On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote:
> the way to do that is to modify @_ in the calling routine and then calling > the sub with &. in your case it would be > > unshift @_, 'my: ' ; > &foo ; > Hadn't thought of that, or, rather, the "my:" was added later to try and show it was my call of warn, not the system. > but you are calling warn there which may not work that way as it is > builtin. > It is, apparently different. Looked at perldoc for perlipc and perlwarnings and tried &warn; &warn(); &warnings::warn(); use warnings::register; &warnings::warnif; all of which failed for various reasons. > for an example of &foo being used in real world code, see the source of > File::Slurp. the error handling code is called with & from several places. > the win there isn't just sharing the code but the return from the error > handler goes back to the user's caller and not to a sub in the module. > Yes, that would be useful too. I must have forgot that aspect of "&" calls ;-> -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk