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

[Alexander Farber (EED)]

Paul wrote:
> None of this is critical for anything I'm doing right now, but I'm a
> detail hound. I want to *understand* it, so that in the future I can
> make intelligent decisions about what would be a "better" way to write
> any given algorithm, without just relying on popular wisdom and "urban
> legend". =o)

If you're a "detail hound", why don't you look into the perl source code?