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James Mastros wrote: > I do wonder, sometimes, if we worry entirely too much about just when > tie and overload calls or done. Would it break actual real-world code > to not retrieve the value of $a (tie) or not boolify it (overload) > when the value will be thrown away anyway? Clearly, we can't do this > in a maintance release, but perhaps we should add warnings that we are > planning on doing it to 5.14.0? It seems to me that doing this would > allow all sorts of optimizations that we currently think of, and then > say "that'd change overloading", and throw out, with very little > impact on real-world code, which either doesn't use overloading, or > would be happy if overloading were made faster by avoiding it where > possible. no tie; no overload; or use optimize qw( :no_overload :no_tie ); ? -- RuudThread Previous | Thread Next