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This one was the reason I came here, details are in the Seekers of Perl Wisdom thread. (THANKS again BUU!!!).
In short: if you write
sub foo() { ... },
you're in trouble.

Why people do this?

Mainly (I think) because it's counter-intuitive to do otherwise. I personally automatically without thinking add "()" to a function declaration. Besides, I call it as "foo()".

Another reasons: Perl allows you to do that. What I encountered is, depending on where one calls sush sub, -- before or after it's defInition(!!!), there'll be a syntax error or no errors. (In fact, after fixing my small problem today, I looked closer at my colleague's module and found several dozen subs declared like this. No complaints from Perl).

Solution

Read all books, spend several years practicing. I leave to the experts the explanation of what "sub name()" really means (it's an array of subs or smth. like that I guess).
-- Find out.

In reply to Re^2: Example 1 by Mabooka-Mabooka
in thread Common Beginner Mistakes by chromatic

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