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Postings from January 2001
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:21:34PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> 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?
I'm of the opinion that if people think that writing
(++$a, ++$a)
is a good idea, then they're fundamentally confused anyway. Slowing
Perl down isn't going to unconfuse them.
--
You want to read that stuff, fine. You want to create a network for such
things, fine. You want to explore the theoretical boundaries of free speech,
fine. But when it starts impacting *people* trying to *communicate*, then
that is where I draw the line. - Russ Allbery, http://www.slacker.com/rant.html
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