Hi ,

Is there any way to compress both these statements to one line ? It would only seem rational that we have a way to do so, especially if i am passing 10 references to my subroutine. 

sub foo (
    my $query_ref = shift(@_);
    my $session_ref = shift(@_);
#do something

     return \$someref;

}

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Not directly related to the above, but going through the man pages , i see there is no formal parameter support , at least in perl 5.10.1 (which is my customer version ) . I heard we have subroutine signature support in perl5.20. if so can you point me to the man pages for that ?

In reply to Using Shift with Parameters in a subroutine by perlron

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