Re^6: Global symbol requires explicit package name


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Re^6: Global symbol requires explicit package name

by ColonelPanic (Friar)

on Nov 29, 2012 at 06:28 UTC ( [id://1006166]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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The first example doesn't provide equivalent functionality, however. When an array slice is passed normally, modifying @_ will modify the original array. But this makes an anonymous copy of the array slice, which is discarded after the function call.

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