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in reply to Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /}

My first thought on reading just the title of this piece was "Gawd! Who says that!" and then I opened the node. Whose perl have you been reading that this looked like an idiom to you?
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Re: Re: Perl Idioms Explained - my ($foo, $bar) = @{shift(@_)}{qw/ -foo -bar /}
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 01, 2004 at 21:59 UTC

    I bet it was CGI.pm


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