The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability [pdf] | Hacker NewsWhen he explains how Perl handles an array passed as an argument to a function: my @list = ('b', 'c'); test('a', @list, 'd'); Which ends up flatting the @list array into the argument list and printing 'a', 'b', 'c', most Perl programmers defend the language saying that the author just doesn't understand Perl, and that's how things are done in the language since forever. The response is basically a
