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in reply to Re^2: P2P Golf: MoleSter
in thread P2P Golf: MoleSter

You actually cannot use pop instead of shift in the first line unless you rearrange the argument list order.

If there's no ordering dependencies between things (in this case &a and &i don't seem to depend on one being called before the others, and neither references $p) you can if you just reverse the order you pop rather than the argument order . . .

i(pop);$a=a(pop);$p=pop;...

Update: D'oh, missed the @ARGV later on. Never mind me.

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Re^4: P2P Golf: MoleSter
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Dec 16, 2004 at 19:05 UTC
    Except that @ARGV is used later on in the while() loop control statement.

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