[FWP] Mystical @_ in subs

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

>From vlb@cfcl.com  Thu Nov 18 08:22:57 1999
>Sorry for the delay; (The list filter caught the word 'sub'
> this being a Perl list, I think I had better turn that off :-) - vlb

sub swap { @_ = @_[1,0] } # doesn't work, but
sub swap { @_[1,0] = @_ } # does.

Not that that's news to any of us,
but it's still kinda fun.

-- 
John Porter

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