in reply to The @_ array and the lexical variables

No voodoo but well documented.

See also call by reference in perlglossary and call by reference in WP.

Please note that "reference" here is CS terminology and doesn't exactly mean Perl's idea of reference but rather Perl's "alias".

Cheers Rolf
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