Hello, recently in my perl programming hobby, I have found some pretty tricky things done by the pdevs. (I am talking about Mr. Schwartz and Mr. Phoenix) One of these is the  shift and unshift command structures compared to the push and pop command structures. I would like to praise the creators (all creators) of perl 5.6.1 for thinking of shiftand unshift. I don't know much about the earlier version(s) and in what version these commands started in. Any info about this subject would be great.

But, the reason I am talking about these 2 commands is because recently a programmer told me there is no way to add on to the front of a list or array. I didn't believe this so I went into the blessed book, Learning Perl 3rd. I was happy to see that Mr. Schwartz and Mr. Phoenix included ways of adding on to the front of lists and arrays; also know as shift and unshift.

I would like to take a moment and thank these great pdevs for writing the great Learning Perl Series. These great books allowed me to gain honor in the eyes of programmers that I can show, even at 13, I can correct you at least once thanks to these guys. :-) Thanks Perl.

-@rocks

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