On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:05:54PM +0200, H. Merijn Brand wrote: > IIRC, that optimization is not even considered for reasons of many people > wanting the side effects of grep/map finishing over all elements (which could > of course be from a tied array or database connection) If we could determine if the block has no side effects... oh wait, everything in Perl has a side effect. ;) -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One I was *meant* to mount your donuts.Thread Previous | Thread Next