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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri,  9 Mar 2007 09:41:09 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How can I shift a variable other than ?
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the emailers union local 101 blames mgmt. for the
mixup.

- erik

On Fri Mar  9 06:18:31 EST 2007, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > 	broken! fn myshift{echo $*; '*' = $*(2-) ; echo $*}
> > 	broken! myshift 1 2 3 4 5
> > 	1 2 3 4 5
> > 
> > less than 20 lines of code.  (attached so you can avert your eyes.)
> 
> I'd say submit it as a patch.  But please explain what I'm missing in
> the last few lines, should it not say?
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 2 3 4 5
> Did you cut it short?
> 
> ++L