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That's an interesting idea. Perhaps that's it after all.

I might be mis-remembering: perhaps it was the @ on the array that was optional? I'm pretty sure it was one of them, but it's been a long time since I've had Perl 4 on my computer.Update It is neither. I must have been thinking of what japhy says.

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Re^4: Missing $ on loop variable
by japhy (Canon) on Dec 03, 2005 at 04:37 UTC
    The @ and % are optional for a lot of functions: push, pop, shift, unshift, splice, keys, values, each.
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