Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:22 PM 9/23/2001 -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>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...

   foreach my $foo (1..10000) {
   }

No reason $foo has to be real in many cases, and its value can certainly be 
cached in an integer register, if it even needs to be a real variable when 
the final code's emitted.

                                        Dan

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