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or, to avoid warnings about the occasional undefs in your arg list: 
sub min {
    my $min;
    for (@_) {
        next unless defined;
        $min = $_ if $_ < $min
    }
    $min
}

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Re^5: I think Perl ruined me as a programmer
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 12, 2010 at 05:45 UTC
    oops, sorry.. 
    sub min {
    my $r;
    for (@_) {
        next unless defined;
        $r = $_ if !defined($r) || $_ < $r
    }
    $r
}

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