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On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 16:16:13 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > The other way to think about === would be that it tells you if its LHS > *could* be constant-folded onto its RHS (if it were constant for long > enough) What is the benefit here? > Because of the word "deep". Deep implies arbitrary work, which isn't > really what you want in such a low-level operator. However, using these > operator, one could easily build whatever you like. The number of times i *sigh*ed at having to reinvent deep operators in a clunky way in Perl 5 is really not in line with Perlishness and DWIM. Also ~~ is deep in exactly the same way. Perl is also not low level. I could build it, and I have, but I don't want to. It can short circuit and be faster when the structure is definitely not the same (totally different early on) or definitely the same (refaddr is equal, etc). Should I go on? > I'd avoid saying "memory", here. Some implementations of Perl 6 might > not know what memory looks like (on a sufficiently abstract VM). "Slot" -- Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418Thread Previous | Thread Next