Re: [PATCH] perl: perl subroutine prototypes are evil, don't use them

[Stefano Lattarini]

Reference:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-03/msg00004.html>

On 03/05/2013 09:22 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Basically, they are not really prototypes, but rather a trick to have
> user-defined subroutines that behave more similarly to perl built-in
> functions, by allowing them to be called without parentheses and to
> impose context on their argument.  Such semantics can be useful in some
> selected situations, but it causes unexpected and harmful behaviours
> and side effects if we try to use perl prototypes as we would use C
> prototypes.
>
Pushed to maint now (with some adjustments to the commit message).

Regards,
  Stefano