note moritz Just as an extra data point, <c>"$@"</c> is used in shell scripts to pass on all arguments that the shell script itself received. In Perl code, there is usually no good reasono to put double quotes around the [doc://$@] variable. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 1014528 1014528