in reply to Re^2: How come @_ gets changed here?
in thread How come @_ gets changed here?

"Pass By Reference" (vs. "Pass By Value") is a general computer science term which is implemented as "aliasing" in Perl.

Perl's "references" are totally different.

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Context matters: Canadians are North Americans proud not to be Americans. ;)

update

OK, I consider this perlsub#Pass-by-Reference a documentation bug.

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