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I personally believe there's been some misunderstanding. Granted, I'm glad to receive your thanks, but I can't remember having pointed out any "clever way that Perl takes care of things automagically" in the post you're replying to. Did I?

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Re^9: When every microsecond counts: Parsing subroutine parameters
by talexb (Chancellor) on May 19, 2008 at 18:57 UTC

    Yes, you did. I was complaining about having to call a sub as follows 

      foo(100,undef,undef,undef,"bar");

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    when in fact this can be shortened to 
      foo(100,,,,"bar");

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    However, as was pointed out by some kind monk, you're left to worry about counting commas, since ,,,, looks a lot like ,,,,, from a distance.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

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      when in fact this can be shortened to

      No, it can't! I was saying that sometimes I would like it to. Apologies if I didn't make it clear enough.

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      Reread the post. 
      C:\camelbox\bin>perl -e "sub foo{ print join '#',@_; } foo(1,,,,,2);"
1#2

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      holli, /regexed monk/
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