Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 16,1996
| There is a well known problem with ordinary ways of using Perl subroutine arguments |
| If one has a argument list which is |
| (@list1, @list2, .... ), then subroutine only sees a single list (array) concatenating the component lists |
| This can be avoided using hard references with \ operator and shown by example |
| @tailings = popmany( \@a, \@b, \@c, \@d ); |
| See next foil for code of popmany |