# [PATCH] gitweb: Remove function prototypes (cleanup)

1 messages from 2009-05-07 to 2009-05-07. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19235

## Jakub Narebski, 2009-05-07 17:11

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Remove function prototypes (cleanup)
Message-ID: <20090507171023.6496.96049.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090507171023.6496.96049.stgit%40localhost.localdomain

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Use of function prototypes is considered bad practice in Perl.  The
ones used here didn't accomplish anything anyhow, so they've been
removed.

>From perlsub(1):

  [...] the intent of this feature [prototypes] is primarily to let
  you define subroutines that work like built-in functions [...]
  you can generate new syntax with it [...]

We don't want to have subroutines behaving exactly like built-in
functions, we don't want to define new syntax / syntactic sugar, so
prototypes in gitweb are not needed... and they can have unintended
consequences.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
This follows similar patch for git-send-email.perl by Bill Pemberton.

Also "sub S_ISGITLINK($) {" line caused `imenu` in my old cperl-mode
(4.23) in GNU Emacs 21.4.1 to fail, sometimes.

 gitweb/gitweb.perl |   12 +++++-------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 3f99361..06e9160 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ exit;
 ## ======================================================================
 ## action links
 
-sub href (%) {
+sub href {
 	my %params = @_;
 	# default is to use -absolute url() i.e. $my_uri
 	my $href = $params{-full} ? $my_url : $my_uri;
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ sub esc_url {
 }
 
 # replace invalid utf8 character with SUBSTITUTION sequence
-sub esc_html ($;%) {
+sub esc_html {
 	my $str = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 
@@ -1296,7 +1296,7 @@ use constant {
 };
 
 # submodule/subproject, a commit object reference
-sub S_ISGITLINK($) {
+sub S_ISGITLINK {
 	my $mode = shift;
 
 	return (($mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFGITLINK)
@@ -2615,7 +2615,7 @@ sub parsed_difftree_line {
 }
 
 # parse line of git-ls-tree output
-sub parse_ls_tree_line ($;%) {
+sub parse_ls_tree_line {
 	my $line = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 	my %res;
@@ -3213,7 +3213,6 @@ sub git_print_header_div {
 	      "\n</div>\n";
 }
 
-#sub git_print_authorship (\%) {
 sub git_print_authorship {
 	my $co = shift;
 
@@ -3269,8 +3268,7 @@ sub git_print_page_path {
 	print "<br/></div>\n";
 }
 
-# sub git_print_log (\@;%) {
-sub git_print_log ($;%) {
+sub git_print_log {
 	my $log = shift;
 	my %opts = @_;
 

```