Nick Ing-Simmons writes: : This was presumably to avoid the extra : test so that GvSV was quicker than GvAVn - but this is of less value : now that "most" scalar vars are presumed to be lexical. Yes, I want lexicals faster than globals, but you guys keep coming up with ways of slowing down globals instead of speeding up lexicals. :-) LarryThread Previous | Thread Next