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Re^4: How to pass two lists to a sub?

by archen (Pilgrim)
on Nov 05, 2004 at 23:18 UTC ( [id://405664]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: How to pass two lists to a sub?
in thread How to pass two lists to a sub?

The main reason I use shift over @_ is to easily set up defaults and quickly get some error checking out of the way.
Consider:
my $var1 = shift || 'default'; my $var2 = shift || return 0;

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