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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > > I also proposed a "no magic" pragma/syntax that would allow the > optimiser to assume that all variables were "normal", and that funky > stuff wasnt going to occur during the scope of the pragma. And in such > a block i would expect this to block to be optimised away. The use of magic is too pervasive for that. Not only because many special variables use active magic ($!, $1, %ENV, %SIG, etc…) but also autovivication, m//g state, tainting and utf8 caching, $#array, pos(), lvalue substr(), scalar(keys) and a number of more obscure things. I don't think it's workable. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next