He didnt explicitly pass @

metaperl has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was looking through the source code for AnyEvent::HTTP and noticed this:

sub http_post($$@) {
   my $url = shift;
   unshift @_, "POST", $url, "body";
   &http_request
}
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but it seems odd that @_ was not explicitly passed... is it automatically passed somehow?

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Re: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by parv (Parson) on Apr 21, 2009 at 15:55 UTC
perlsub.	[reply]
Re^2: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2009 at 16:00 UTC
... not forgetting perlvar A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^3: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by parv (Parson) on Apr 21, 2009 at 16:26 UTC
Truthfully, perlvar did not come to my mind at the time to check for relevance. So, did I miss something in OP as the perlvar entry, without adding anything extra, points to perlsub ?	[reply]
Re^4: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Apr 21, 2009 at 17:08 UTC
Re^5: He didnt explicitly pass @_ by tye (Sage) on Apr 22, 2009 at 02:52 UTC