On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 10-09-18 05:05 PM, Bill Ward wrote: > >> If that's your attitude, Perl is probably not the best language for >> you... context is everything in Perl. >> > > Context on the same line is easy to remember. Context shifts that happen > many lines ago are not so easy. > > > Things that behave differently should look different. > > Well in the case of argless shift, that's a weak argument. There are only two possibilities: @_ if inside a subroutine, @ARGV otherwise. In both cases there's a very high degree of DWIM.
