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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
December 9, 2021 19:08
Subject:
Re: "no snails"; or having signatured subs complain about @_
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YbJUOhubn5mqTCIQ@iabyn.com
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:26:54PM +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> No, because the values can be popped off the stack once assigning args to
> params is done. (Although, they'd have to be kept in the presence of 'perl
> -d' in order to keep caller() and @DB::args working).

Correction - it's not the presence of '-d', its calling calling() from the
DB package - so potentially the args would always need to be left on the
stack until the end of the sub call, unless we abolish @DB::args.

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