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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:36 AM, James Mastros <james@mastros.biz> 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? I think explicitly clarifying that side effects (like magic) will not happen if the compiler optimizes a block or expression is a good idea. Then maybe we could use the less pragma when that isn't desired. ( e.g. "use less 'optimization'" ) -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next