Re^2: Weird Perl Rule I'm Probably Not Following

[nedals]

my $value1 = shift; # shift along acts on @_ so its the same as @_[0];

Not really.
shift will remove the first element from @_
@_[0] leaves it in place

[eric256]

Sorry you took that a little literaly. I meant that it filled the same position as @_[0] did in his code. Which IS true. I probably should have made that clearer.