module, nor make it harder to read. The line noise is visually
encapsulated into a small pill that's easy to swallow.
+If you try to use an alphanumeric sequence in a prototype you will
+generate an optional warning - "Illegal character in prototype...".
+Unfortunately earlier versions of Perl allowed the prototype to be
+used as long as its prefix was a valid prototype. The warning may be
+upgraded to a fatal error in a future version of Perl once the
+majority of offending code is fixed.
+
It's probably best to prototype new functions, not retrofit prototyping
into older ones. That's because you must be especially careful about
silent impositions of differing list versus scalar contexts. For example,
And, as you'll have noticed from the previous example, if you override
C<glob>, the C<E<lt>*E<gt>> glob operator is overridden as well.
+In a similar fashion, overriding the C<readline> function also overrides
+the equivalent I/O operator C<< <FILEHANDLE> >>.
+
Finally, some built-ins (e.g. C<exists> or C<grep>) can't be overridden.
=head2 Autoloading