Re^2: Using ternary operator as lvalue in push

[oha]

I don't think it's a limitation, you can use @{cond?\@a:\@b}. but i would like to spend more words on why push is prototyped: i'll check around.

[jhourcle]

i would like to spend more words on why push is prototyped

So we don't have to pass a reference for the first argument.

If there weren't a prototype, the array being passed in would be flattened:

push @array, $value;

would be equivalent to:

push $array[0], @array[1..$#array], $value;

Let's compare two subroutines with and without prototypes, and see what's in @_:

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