SPUG: parameterized push

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:56:49PM -0800, "Michael R. Wolf" <MichaelRWolf at att.net> wrote:
> Is there an easier (i.e. more readable, and without resorting to
> references) way to pass an argument off to push?

Nope.  $ perl -we'print prototype "CORE::push"'
\@@

push has a \@ as the first part of the prototype, and perlsub says:

   Any backslashed prototype character represents an actual argument
   that absolutely must start with that character.  The value passed
   as part of C<@_> will be a reference to the actual argument given
   in the subroutine call, obtained by applying C<\> to that argument. 

so only an array or array dereference (like you have) should work.
There is actually a bug that allows push CONST ? @a : @b, LIST to work,
but don't depend upon it, since it might get fixed.