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RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL

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Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
July 6, 2001 05:42
Subject:
RE: [ID 20010703.002] [5.6.2-to-be] PerlIO is EVIL
Message ID:
20010706133046.1279.5@bactrian.ni-s.u-net.com
>
>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/


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