Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> the right answer or the wrong answer. Once a language acknowledges that it is
> dealing with pure, honest-to-God integers, then it is fairly easy to compile
> down to integer-specific opcodes.

I don't know when this situation ever happens in Perl 5.4...

In Perl (5.4) you don't know what $a * $b does without looking at the
value of $a and possibly also the value of $b.

I'm not even talking of Ruby yet.

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