On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:31:59AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>that's a very elegant solution.  but alas,

It has its flaws, but it's useful in many circimstances nonetheless. 
I've used, named tl, instead, a few times when I new the first argument 
to a fn would be a word, and I needed to shift it off, and as the 
following arguments had been parsed by the shell to begin with, I knew 
they'd be parsed the same again.

Nevertheless, here's an unpleasant rc solution:

fn myshift {
	* = $$1
	eval 'shift; '$1' = $*'
}

Or, you can just use sh(1), where you have ${tl}, subfn,
(hd tl) := list
and so forth.

-- 
Kris Maglione

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.