Er, actually, I feel like a hobbit being caught red handed meddling in the affairs of wizards, which are, as everybody knows, subtle and quick to anger.

I tried and fiddle a bit with this and it's somewhat interesting. @_ is not itself aliased with the list of arguments. But each element of @_ is individually aliased with each argument. That means that you can't change the list itself (i.e. the number of its elements), but you can the values of each element. If I do:

sub { pop; shift; }->(@array);

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It'll leave @array unharmed. OTOH, if I do:

sub { $_[0] = 'whatever' }->(@array);

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It will change the first element of @array. You can combine both (although I would not recommend it):

sub { shift; $_[0] = 'whatever' }->(@array);
# changes the *second* element of @array

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--bwana147

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: flip-flop operator and sequence number by bwana147
in thread flip-flop operator and sequence number by iakobski

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