Junk Your Old Prototypes (1)

• Have Perl 5 prototypes ever really been all that useful?

  • Can tell you if you've provided the wrong number of mandatory arguments, but ...

  • Very limited type-checking

    • All scalars look alike, whether strings, numbers or references

    • Won't warn if mandatory argument is undefined

  • Do not preclude need to unpack @INC

  • Do not declare named variables for use within subroutine, as signatures would