[Pdx-pm] evil @ARGV syntax

[Michael G Schwern]

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.

> > Adding one to $#ARGV is to make the operation more like how people think.  
> 
> 	I have to wonder what sort of people you've been associating with
> that think this way. :-)
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