On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, John W. Krahn wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > > shift is a function for pulling off the first element from a list. > > Wrong! If you try to use shift() with a list it will print out a nice > error message "Type of arg 1 to shift must be array". > > perldoc -q "What is the difference between a list and an array"
Whoops! I stand corrected. Sorry about that. In any case, the bigger point is that @_ and shift are much different things -- they may be used in similar places, but that doesn't make them into synonyms. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
