Rick Delaney writes: > ${\($x, $y, $z)[$i++]} += $_ for foo; I thought of that but avoided it because it recalculates the reference list each time. I did the sub with both lists as arguments specifically to avoid the recalculation. Nat ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe