Re^2: How would you do it? Re ARGV, fundamentally!

I set @ARGV in programs all the time. There's nothing sacred about it.

Me too (see e.g. Re^2: How would you do it? Re ARGV, fundamentally! in this very thread). Now that you mention it, perhaps even:

{
    local @ARGV=shift;
    while (<>) { ... }
}

while (<>) { ... }
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Re^3: How would you do it? Re ARGV, fundamentally! by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 19, 2005 at 11:58 UTC
I may be seen as the poster-boy for "make it shorter", but this line: `local @ARGV=shift;` [download] has a huge pile o' magic going on in it. While I might use it in a program, it deserves a comment line alongside it, explaining that the "shift" on the right side is using the old @ARGV, before the new local @ARGV is created. No, in production code, I'd probably write it like I showed upthread. Yours is full of magic. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply] [d/l]

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local @ARGV=shift;
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No, in production code, I'd probably write it like I showed upthread. Yours is full of magic.