> >Additionally, there are several places where local temporary variables assigned just to make further assignment less verbose. >("buf" in PerlIOStdio_read function is an example). That is not the reason. The reason is to get the function/macro calls out of the inner loop. > >IMHO while idea of perlio.c is good, and it allows cool things, it's implementation could be cleaned greatly. Patches welcome. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next