07-16-2012
Thanks Scott, that sounds reasonable, it's kind of like the difference between $* and $@ in the Bourne shell. I'm guessing that there is no difference whatsoever between the two expressions for the number of array elements.
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NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell - base class for CPANPLUS shells
SYNOPSIS
use CPANPLUS::Shell; # load the shell indicated by your
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# CPANPLUS::Shell::Default
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