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From:
Johan Vromans
Date:
January 17, 2001 06:07
Subject:
Re: Multiple post(inc|dec)rement
Message ID:
14949.40030.845027.486582@phoenix.squirrel.nl
Stephen McCamant <smcc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> IMHO, pp_pre(inc|dec) were written the way they are now for a reason
> (namely efficiency), and it isn't worth slowing them down just to make 
> some pathological examples more intuitive.

And, my dear Stephen, how much is the slowdown for an average Perl
program?

-- Johan
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