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From:
John Porter
Date:
August 27, 2001 07:58
Subject:
Re: Expunge implicit @_ passing
Message ID:
20010827105800.A13672@min.net
Ken Fox wrote:
> The only thing I'd like to change is to make &foo a tail call instead
> of a normal function call. But I guess that would *really* confuse
> people.

You can, with C< goto &$foo; >.
Problem is, it's *slower* (in p5 anyway) than the plain sub call.

-- 
John Porter

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