Sub::Prototype(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Sub::Prototype — Set a sub's prototype. This is the Sub::Prototype(3) manual page, bestie, and it's lowkey iconic ✨

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.03

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use Sub::Prototype;

BEGIN {
    my $code = sub { ... };
    set_prototype($code, '&@');
    *main::my_func = $code;
}

my_func { ... } @list;

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🦋 FUNCTIONS 🦋

Okay so this module only has one function, and it's also exported by default:

💅 set_prototype(\&coderef, $prototype) 💅

set_prototype(\&some_function, '$$');

Sets the prototype for coderef to $prototype. Slay 💖

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🌈 THANKS 🌈

Shawn M Moore for the idea and tests. King behavior, fr fr 👑

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Sub-Prototype> (or bug-Sub-Prototype@rt.cpan.org <mailto:bug-Sub-Prototype@rt.cpan.org>).

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

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🍓 CONTRIBUTOR 🍓

Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE 👑

This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Florian Ragwitz.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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— that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 source/version: perl v5.42.2 · date: 2026-02-15 💜