Indeed!

It just grinds my gears that _I_ need to check to see if the caller has given me all the required bits. That seems like something the language should do.

I understand that it does give you a lot of flexibility, but Hnnnnnnnnn

(from what I recall object oriented perl doesn't give you this flexibility, but I'm not sure, as I never really did it. )

  Yes, I hate to write

  sub foo($$$) {
    my ($a, $b, $c) = @_;
  }

Not sure if you've deliberately put in two bugs there haha

1. shift only shifts off the first element.

2. (if classify this as a bug) using $a and $b are frowned upon because they're the default variables when using sort.