The words subroutine and function are often used
interchangably in perl. (Even perlsub does it!)
What I meant by calling shift "not really a function"
was that it is very
unlike the functions you define in your code, which have
a symbol table entry and thus are associated with
a package, can have coderefs be taken
of them, and be aliased to other names at the symbol table
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You mean you can't override shift like you can with other built-in functions (import into CORE:: if memory serves)?
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Starting with perl version 5.6.1 you can override shift,
like you can with other built-ins.
As an indication of this
prototype("CORE::shift") returns \@ (which seems a little odd considering
the default argument... Hmm...)
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