Returns the prototype of a function as a string (or undef
if the function has no prototype). FUNCTION is a reference to, or the name of, the function whose prototype you want to retrieve.
If FUNCTION is a string starting with CORE::
, the rest is taken as a name for Perl builtin. If the builtin is not overridable (such as qw//
) or its arguments cannot be expressed by a prototype (such as system()
) returns undef
because the builtin does not really behave like a Perl function. Otherwise, the string describing the equivalent prototype is returned.