On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:37:14PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > The only question is whether it's worth the small slowdown of testing the > refcnt of $_ at each iteration?
A good rule of thumb is "Perl should never kill perl" and any marginal slow down is worth hanging onto that. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern ROCKS FALL! EVERYONE DIES! http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml
