> How to set default values in Perl

Gabor is mixing two cases in his article,

• defaulting undef values
• defaulting missing values (like with the hashes)

But doesn't give an example for missing values in arrays.

TIMTOWTDI, alas not very DRY

  DB<30> x @_
0  1
1  2
  DB<31> x ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (@_, ("D1".."D4")[@_..3])
0  1
1  2
2  'D3'
3  'D4'
  DB<32>
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or

  DB<32> @DEF= ("D1".."D4")

  DB<33> x ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (@_, @DEF[@_..$#DEF])
0  1
1  2
2  'D3'
3  'D4'
  DB<34>
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edit

or

use v5.12.0;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/pp dd/;


sub test {
    my ($x, $y, $z) =
      ( @_,
        ("X","Y","Z")[@_..42]
      );

    pp ($x, $y, $z);
}

test(1..$_) for 0..3
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-->

("X", "Y", "Z")
(1, "Y", "Z")
(1, 2, "Z")
(1, 2, 3)
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