[Pdx-pm] evil @ARGV syntax

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Tue Jul 19 19:51:39 PDT 2005


Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:45:35PM -0700, Austin Schutz wrote:
> > > Lots of poorly written Perl books (which is to say most of them prior to 
> > > 2000) never clearly teach $num_things = @things. 
> 
> PLEASE READ THE ABOVE BEFORE COMMENTING ON THE BELOW!  If you don't know about
> "$num = @array" then "$num = $#array + 1" makes sense.

And perlvar is silent on this aspect of Perl.


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