on Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:09:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Stainburn) wrote:
> While your answer makes sense, why doesn't shift use the $_ as I
> obviously expected?
If you
perldoc perlvar
and look for the description of '$_', you will see where it is 'assumed'.
To complicate matters, the 'shift' operator has it's own default argument,
which is '@_', since 'shift' needs an array as parameter.
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