Is there a difference between Perl's shift versus assignment from @_ for subroutine parameters?

Question

Let us ignore for a moment Damian Conway\'s best practice of no more than three positional parameters for any given subroutine.

Is there any difference between the t

Answer 1

I suspect if you're doing the (rough) equivalent of:

push @bar, shift @_ for (1 :: $big_number);

Then you're doing something wrong. I amost always use the my ($foo, $bar) = @_; form cos I've shot myself in the foot using the latter a few too many times ...