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Re: Yet another switch/goto implementation

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
November 8, 2001 16:34
Subject:
Re: Yet another switch/goto implementation
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20011108192813.0200e008@pop.sidhe.org
At 07:27 PM 11/8/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Gack. Looks like a mis-placed optimization in perl 5. The list of a 
> foreach
> > is *supposed* to flatten at loop start and be static. Apparently not. :)
>
>Is anybody keeping a list of things that are *supposed* to be static? Is
>the list changing much with Perl 6?

That's Larry's domain.

> > Care to file the perl 5 bug report, or shall I?
>
>I thought it was a feature. ;)

Nah, I think it's a performance hack.

					Dan

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