[Brisbane-pm] Passing a Two-Dimensional Array to a sub in Perl 5.8.6

[Andrew Savige]

--- Damian James wrote:
> However, I strongly suggest that even though Perl has a prototype  
> mechanism that can be used to enforce passing by reference, not using  
> it. Seriously, it's probably what's causing your confusion here.

Agreed. Quoting from Chapter 9 of Perl Best Practices:

 "Don't use subroutine prototypes"

As for why, you can read all about it even if you don't own the book
because Chapter 9 is the freely available sample chapter at:

 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/chapter/index.html

Cheers,
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