> I bet I could find people who had been using perl to do work for years who wouldn't be able to explain what was happening here Don't jump to conclusions. You

> I bet I could find people who had been using perl to do work for years who wouldn't be able to explain what was happening here Don't jump to conclusions. You will not find such people, because those are very basics. Understanding of $_[0] is necessary to use arguments in Perl functions and understanding of @{...} is necessary to use array references as lists.