I'd like to note that *foo passes all of the following: \@foo passes only @foo. In terms of maintainability, go with the reference even if it's a teeny bit slower because someone maintaining code more complex than print_array might be confused as to which thing you really meant to pass in and use; worse, there's the possibility of accidentally using one of those variables in the subroutine and absentmindedly leaving off the my ... for which you will get no error message!

Pass globs only when there's no other way to deal with the problem - and as of Perl 5.8 (at least), there's always a better way: references, or a filehandle in a lexical variable.

In reply to Re: Best way to pass a array to a function by pemungkah
in thread Best way to pass a array to a function by vinoth.ree

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