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%params = %{ shift };

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When I first read it, I thought it implied that shift in list context returns them all and empties the list; that is, gives the same value as %params= @_; but also empties out @_.

After reading Abagail's explaination, I see that he's passing a hashref as the first parameter, rather than passing names/values as individual parameters.

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Re: I've never seen =that= before!
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jan 27, 2004 at 15:47 UTC
    And you don't want to. It means the same as 
        %params = %shift;

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    What you might want to see instead is: 
        %params = %{+shift};

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    Abigail

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