SPUG: Variable in subroutines to check number of args?

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoenna at efn.org
Wed Jul 12 19:09:45 PDT 2006


On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:31:58PM -0700, John Costello wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Tim Maher wrote:
> > 
> > You can use the following to load a variable with what you want:
> > 
> >    my $argc = @_; # get #-of-elements from @_ (sub-argument) array
> 
> How painfully obvious.
> 
> May I distract all of you with the 'use bytes' pragma while I run away?

The use bytes pragma is almost never a good thing to use; you're not,
are you?


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