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From:
Eirik Berg Hanssen
Date:
July 21, 2010 01:46
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Re: [perl #76438] peephole optimiser could prune more dead code
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote:

> And could you also explain why it makes sense that $a.$a has to invoke
> magic twice, while $a x 2 will only call it once?
>

  For the same reason that f().f() calls &f twice, while f() x 2 will only
call it once?


Eirik
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