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

my @choices = first_x_ele($limit, @options);

If you think something is unclear, use a sub! How you implement the sub isn't very important, but a short one would be:

sub first_x_ele { my $x = shift; splice(@_, 0, $x) }