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by int_19h 1378 days ago
> If you passed too many or too few arguments to a function which worked this way, the extra arguments would silently be ignored, or missing arguments would silently show up as undef.

This part probably won't shock anyone given the prevalence of JS today. Which is kinda sad, given that it's 35 years since Perl was first a thing.