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John Imrie wrote:
> On 28/12/2015 01:01, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> > But that is exactly how symbols are exported (assuming you mean *
> > rather than *). Normalization for hash access (which is how we would
> > have to do this), even if it is limited to stashes, would be an effic-
> > iency nightmare.
>
> I was
> hoping that we could do the normalisation on insert into the stash. So
> that the stash it's self was normalised. This would make it a compile
> time operation, or one hit for each symbol you are exporting. I don't
> know enough of the Perl internals as to why this would have to be on
> access rather than insert.
If the string "whatever" used to ask for the symbol, as in
use Foo "whatever";
is not normalised, but *Foo::whatever is stored in the *Foo:: stash
normalised, then the symbol lookup that happens at run time every time
the symbol is exported will at some point have to normalise the name
provided by the caller.
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