RE: Schwartzian transforms

[David Whipp]

> From: Russ Allbery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >we can just flat-out say "We may optimize your
> > sort function"
> 
> I am strongly in favor of that approach.  I see no reason to allow for
> weird side effects in Perl 6.

Let me second the motion. "Allow optimisation" should be the default. A
programmer should, however, be able to say

  sort sub :no_memoize { $global++ ; (($a*10+$b)%3)-1 } (1..10);

if they really want to. But make the programmer say "I am doing something
wierd", not the other way round.


Dave.