In case you were thinking that this behaviour is bad, well, it's not. It's actually quite useful. If you get into a habit of passing your scalars first, and ONE list at the end, you can start doing some Lisp'ish stuff: 
recurse(split('','Hello World'));

sub recurse {
    my ($car,@cdr) = @_;
    print "$car\n";
    @cdr and recurse(@cdr);
}

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But if you find yourself passing lots of different datatypes, then consider passing a hash instead. Just note that any values that are arrays or hashes must be passed as references: 
foo(
   array  => [0..9],
   scalar => 'Hello World',
   hash   => {qw(foo bar baz qux)},
);

sub foo {
   my %args = @_;
   print 's: ', $args{scalar},"\n",
      'a: ', join(',', @{$args{array}}),"\n",
      "h:\n", map "\t$_ => $args{hash}{$_}\n", keys %{$args{hash}},
   ;
}

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Now you don't have to worry about what order you list the arguments. :)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re: Passing multiple data types to a subroutine by jeffa
in thread Passing multiple data types to a subroutine by Hagbone

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