SPUG: Variable in subroutines to check number of args?
John Costello
cos at indeterminate.net
Wed Jul 12 14:13:06 PDT 2006
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Dan Ebert wrote:
> I don't know if there is a variable, but couldn't you just do "scalar @_"
> (before @_ is modified by any shifts, etc.?
*cough*
Well, now that I know about "scalar @_", yes, I could. Many thanks to Dan
and David Dyck (the latter wrote me offlist).
I always thought 'scalar' and 'list' referred to the context. I had no
idea that there was a function named 'scalar'.
Back to the unicode mines with me.
John
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