AW: Function parameter passing (was: Re: limit the list)

[Pense, Joachim]

Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
(Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 11:43)

>On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:10:02 -0600, Steven Lembark wrote:
>
>>sub commify
>>{
>>      my ( $max, $sep, $end ) = ( shift, shift, shift );
>       ...
>>}
>
>Wow! Hold it! Am I the only one who finds this absurd? More than one
>shift on the same array in one single expressing, sounds like bad style
>to me. Comments?

In one of my programs, this would be

sub commify {
    my $max = shift;
    my $sep = shift;
    my $end = shift;

    ...
}

better or even worse in your view?

Joachim