<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 29, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Chris Weyl wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">That's the way it is. Prototypes are only used when a sub is invoked as a function, not from a coderef or method; this make sense in their context of providing the capacity to emulate built in functions.</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think of prototypes as a compile-time thing. </div><div><br></div><div>Dereferencing a subroutine ref is a run-time event. </div><div><br></div><div>Perl knows nothing about prototypes at that point.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jeff</div></body></html>