http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=62980

...so there i was, degugging away, and i needed a subroutine to dump the whole state of my application to some files (using storable, etc)... and so i write the subroutine and fold into my code... and then my application suddenly starts "terminating abnormally" on my new subroutine... i am totally befuddled... cannot see anything wrong with the code... how utterly mysterious! 
### dump everything to a file
sub dump {
    my (%params) = @_;
    # blah blah
}

dump(-file=>"foo.txt", -code=>"full", -blah=>"etc");

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...then my RTFM flash of light... perhaps dump wasn't the wisest choice for a subroutine name. duh. well, learn something new every day...

nop

yeah, i know  &dump(-file=>"foo.txt", -code=>"full", -blah=>"etc"); would have been ok with the &

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