in reply to Re: Re: Conditional initialisation
in thread Conditional initialisation

Wouldn't the following work just the same? 
sub foo {
    my @time_vec = @_ > 1
        ? @_
        : defined $_[0]
            ? localtime($_[0])
            : localtime;

    return strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', @time_vec);
}

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