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Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"

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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 2, 2001 09:59
Subject:
Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"
Message ID:
200105021658.JAA02115@kiev.wall.org
Dan Sugalski writes:
: I'd really like to get into the details of what is and isn't valid for the 
: optimizer to do, though I expect it's still a little early in the 
: Apocalypse season for that.

Doubtless we'll do as other compilers do, and have a little knob you
just keep turning up until something breaks, and then you back it off
a notch and think no more about it.

Larry
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