I suppose that would make sense if the OP had expressed confusion about what @_ is. I saw no such confusion.

The confusion was about how @_ gets implicitly passed, which I don't see covered in the least in perlvar. But I don't find a blind link to perlsub particularly enlightening nor even polite.

The particular feature being asked about is discussed in perlsub starting at the paragraph that begins "A subroutine may be called using an explicit & prefix" (but there appears to be no anchor there so I can't construct a link that jumps particularly close to that part of the document.

I concisely summarized much of this in (tye)Re: A question of style as well, which some may find useful for its brevity.

- tye        

In reply to Re^5: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by tye
in thread He didnt explicitly pass @_ by metaperl

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