note jhourcle <readmore><p>So barewords were introduced with the assumption subroutine calls would always have amperands -- and as hindsight works so well, we can all see what a bad assumption that was.</p> <p>(besides, you said 'Presuming no "use strict" (or the days of Perl3)')<p> <p> ... and I'm a newbie -- I learned from <strike>Matt's Script Archive</strike> the llama book in um...1994? 1995? using Perl 4. I've never used Perl 3.</p></readmore> 450080 450250