Dear merlyn,

with your piece of code, I think there is the danger that people might use it without fully understanding what it is doing (see for example the cgi parameter "parser" by Matt's Script Archive, which may work in a certain script, but not in many others). And they will perhaps get into troubles when there is e.g. already something in @ARGV.

From the perl-point-of-view it's great, but from the learner's-point-of-view it may cause more problems than necessary.

I hope, this time I happened to explain my point of view in a better way.

Best regards,

ls

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