>There was no such thing as just writing f(a,b) to call a function. You had to use something called "$@" or whatever Just so it's clear, you do call a function

>There was no such thing as just writing f(a,b) to call a function. You had to use something called "$@" or whatever Just so it's clear, you do call a function in that way... some_function($a,$b). It's how the function gets a hold of those arguments that you're talking about..the args are in an array called @_, like: sub some_function { ($first_arg,$second_arg)=@_; } And, like most things in Perl, there's lots of different ways to deal with it. Using shift(), or passing args as a hash, etc.