in reply to Re: Parameters, subs and the shift function
in thread Parameters, subs and the shift function

Ahh, thank you. I'm a little embarrassed. I never dereferenced a builtin like shift only user defined functions. 
Global symbol "@shift" requires explicit package name at noname5.pl li
+ne 5.
Global symbol "@shift" requires explicit package name at noname5.pl li
+ne 6.
Execution of noname5.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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