On Jun 30, John W. Krahn said:

>Kevin Reid wrote:
>> 
>> sub rotate { unshift @_, splice @_, shift @_; return @_ }
>
>
>$ perl -le'
>sub rotate { unshift @_, splice @_, shift @_; return @_ }
>@x = qw/a b c d e f/;
>print "@x";
>print "@{[rotate @x]}"; 
>'
>a b c d e f
>b c d e f
>
>
>Doesn't shift() do pretty much the same thing?  :-)

You shouldn't run perl with warnings, John. ;)

The first arg to rotate() is the number of elements to rotate.

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