On Feb 12, Steven M. Klass said:

>&Somefunction($var1, \@arry)
>
>sub SomeFunction {
>       my $var = $_[0];    # XXX you were missing a ; here
>       my $array = shift;

Uh, $array and $var have the same value now.  shift() removes the first
element from an array (defaulting to @_) and returns it.  The first
element of @_ is $_[0], which is $var1.

Saying

  my $var = $_[0];

is not the same as

  my $var = shift;

The first one does NOT remove the element from @_; the second one DOES.

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