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Comment by emmelaich | Hacker News Reader

I have to agree.

Perl was an early love of mine.

I was excited when subroutine prototypes came to Perl. Sadly they were almost completly unlike prototypes in any other language and no-one used them.

Subroutine signatures look like another attempt. Sorry but too late.

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You were excited in 1996-Feb-29 when 5.002 was released? Also, prototypes are widely used as syntax hints for the perl compiler and were never meant as signatures.

  You were excited in 1996-Feb-29 when 5.002 was released?

Not everyone on hn is in their early twenties, i suppose.

Exactly. Well hell, I did most of my time doing 'big' perl (as distinct from a better awk) with 4.019 and 4.036.

Now _they_ were fine vintages :-)

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