Is there a less clumsy alternative for copying up to “n” array elements?

Question

In a world of many @choices
With a $limit to what one can do,
Life proposes many @options
But at time

Answer 1

I'd probably use splice:

my @choices = splice ( @options, 0, $limit ); 

Note that splice acts like shift/pop and modifies the source array - if that's undesirable, then copy it first.