On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:53:28AM +0000, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:31:21AM -0800, Randy J. Ray wrote:
> >$s = $r;
> >for (@list) { $s = $s->{$_}; last unless ref $s; }
> >There's probably a trickier, shorter "golf" solution, but I was never into
> >obfuscated code writing...
>
> That makes sense; I was looking for a single-step transformation...
Surely the complexity of the operation is what matters, not necessarily
the number of steps? A 10000 step function which operates in constant time
is always less costly than a 3 step function operating in linear time.
Isn't it? Well, for a suitably large set of operations...
/joel
