Re^2: Good use for prototypes. On methods no less!

[polymorpheus]

Prototypes do nothing on method calls. There is plenty of talk about this in various forums. So they do not affect good users.

If someone tries to call UNIVERSAL::isa(...) with arguments (what use would it be otherwise) they will get the compile time error.

For example, this:

> perl -e 'sub method() { }; main->method(1, 2, 3);'

works, but this:

> perl -e 'sub method() { }; main::method("main", 1, 2, 3);'
Too many arguments for main::method at -e line 1, near "3)"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

does not.

[Eliya]

Prototypes do nothing on method calls.

Ah, sorry, I misread...   I thought you were suggesting that they should work with methods, too, and that this way all kind of problems (including the example presented) could be solved.  My bad!