Granted, and most people think prototypes are evil for similar reasons. Perl doesn't have the same design goals as something like Python, it will accept inconsi

Granted, and most people think prototypes are evil for similar reasons. Perl doesn't have the same design goals as something like Python, it will accept inconsistencies and complexity if they're deemed useful I personally like this, assuming the complexities aren't too great and the documentation is good but to each their own Edit: In Perl land it is a bad idea to treat built ins as being identical to subs, and this was taught to me by the books I learnt from. The rub of this is that it is bad to generalise from stuff like print, push etc