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Quoth rvtol+usenet@isolution.nl ("Dr.Ruud"):
> 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 );
Obviously, this should be
use less "magic";
:)
Ben
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