Re: Very[OT]:Technical query re: scratchpad lookups for my() vars

[Alexander Farber (EED)]

Paul wrote:
> --- Robert Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but as I recall, when your program enters a scope,
> > perl immediatly identifies the the scratchpad to use.  Then, it need
> > only search backwards up the tree of scratchpads to find the variable
> > "$x", which is faster than iterating through the STHASH looking for a
> > localized or global $x.
> 
> But how does it locate x in the scratchpad? Where're the docs?
> Or am I gonna have to read the code? =lol!

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