On Jun 14, David Gilden said:
>my ($name,$key,$date) = @_[0..2]
You needn't even use an explicit slice.
my ($name, $key, $date) = @_;
works fine here, and is generally preferred over large amounts of
shift()s.
If you do need to be destructive to @_, then you might want to
splice() it, instead of shift() it forever.
my ($name, $key, $date) = splice @_, 0, 3; # 3 is LENGTH of splice
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