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Re: [FWP] aCertainName.pm
Larry Rosler wrote:
>
> my foo {
> my $x = abs; # Sets @_ to $_.
> &bar; # Expects the same arguments as foo(), namely none, but now
> gets $_.
> }
>
> @_ has been 'clobbered' by abs()!
Huh? It's only the ELEMENTS of @_ that can be clobbered,
not the @_ variable itself.
You may have been fooled by the fact that you called
the built-in abs(;$), rather than the user-defined one.
To demonstrate that, you need to call &abs.
--
John Porter
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