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From:
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Date:
December 3, 2004 23:36
Subject:
Re: state vs my
Message ID:
b8b9a5110412032336744f04c1@mail.gmail.com
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:
> So optimizing to a state variable won't necessarily help your loop
> overhead, but it could help your subroutine overhead, at least in Perl
> 5, if Perl 5 had state variables.  Best you can do in Perl 5 is an
> "our" variable with an obscure name.

    my $x if 0;

I know it's *going* away, but it hasn't *gone* away yet.

-- 
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brent@brentdax.com>
Perl and Parrot hacker

"I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one."
    --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)

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