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[Quoting nick@ing-simmons.net, on January 17 2001, 23:35, in "Re: Multiple post(in"] > Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> writes: > >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 agree with Stephen - I use ++ a lot and messing with temporaries > has more cost than you would expect. Then be consequent -- make it a syntax error. -- JohanThread Previous | Thread Next