You may have got this already, but I'm going to explain without code fragments. pop takes an element off the end of an array; it matches up with push, which adds an element to the end of an array. shift takes an element off the beginning of an array; it matches up with unshift (OK that one is maybe a little clumsily named), which adds an element to the beginning of an array.

So, to answer the premise your title proposes, Nope -- reverse pop with push, and reverse shift with unshift. Still not convinced? Hop into the debugger and try a few examples, live, and see how Perl works. :)