in reply to Re^2: How would you do it? Re ARGV, fundamentally!
in thread How would you do it? Re ARGV, fundamentally!

I may be seen as the poster-boy for "make it shorter", but this line: 
local @ARGV=shift;

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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
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