in reply to Re^2: what would you like to see in perl5.12?
in thread what would you like to see in perl5.12?

Perhaps the object could be $_[ 0 ] and @_[1 .. n] could be direct aliases to $1 .. $n?

The correspondance between $1 and $_[1] would make for nice symmetry.

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