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On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:35:05AM +0100, James Mastros wrote:
> I think what Nick was getting at, and certainly what I was getting at,
> was not that we should bypass get magic, but rather that, in marked
> blocks, it should be acceptable to not call get magic *when the output
> is not relevant*, and to cache the value of the get magic during that
> lexical scope, each execution. That is, we assume that values act
> like values, and not like hidden accessors. $! would still work, so
> long as we don't look at $! twice and expect it to change. That is:
No, that's not what *I* was getting at. That's the entire thread that has gone
sideways from what I originally reported. What *I* reported was that:
$ ./perl -Ilib -MO=Deparse -e 'if ($a && "Pie" eq "Good") {print}'
if ($a and !1) {
print $_;
}
-e syntax OK
ie there is provably dead code still in the optree - the print statement.
(Which could be removed by the optimiser, without any change to any semantic
of the language. ie it's 100% safe)
Nicholas Clark
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