Re: Prototype Mismatch Errors


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Re: Prototype Mismatch Errors

by LanX (Saint)

on Aug 07, 2018 at 20:41 UTC ( [id://1220036]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Prototype Mismatch Errors

On another note, don't you activate warnings ?

I'm surprised you're not seeing any "subroutine redefined" errors.

(can't test ATM)

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Re^2: Prototype Mismatch Errors
by hippo (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2018 at 08:05 UTC

$ cat use.pl 
#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
use Date::Format;
$ ./use.pl 
Prototype mismatch: sub main::strftime: none vs ($\@;$) at /usr/share/
+perl5/vendor_perl/Exporter.pm line 66.
 at ./use.pl line 5.
Prototype mismatch: sub main::ctime: none vs ($;$) at /usr/share/perl5
+/vendor_perl/Exporter.pm line 66.
 at ./use.pl line 5.
Prototype mismatch: sub main::asctime: none vs (\@;$) at /usr/share/pe
+rl5/vendor_perl/Exporter.pm line 66.
 at ./use.pl line 5.
$ perl -v | head -3

This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 3 (v5.20.3) built for x86_64-li
+nux-thread-multi
(with 16 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
[download]

I would hypothesise that because the prototypes are different, the subroutines are not actually redefined. Just a guess, though.

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