Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:22:08PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > 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.
> Oh, you mean magic variables? They're PMCs anyway, with overloaded
> ->multiply methods.
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
>>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.

Ok, never mind, I'm sorry, I had missed a paragraph in your original
e-mail that explained most of it.



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