At 07:53 PM 11/7/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > No it isn't. It can get the integer length of the array and stuff it in a
> > register at the beginning of the loop, or do an integer compare when it
> > needs to, depending on the semantics of the loop.
>
>Wow. Did you just come up with a place in Perl where static
>behavior is guaranteed?
>
> my @array = ( 1 );
>
> foreach my $e (@array) {
> push @array, $e + 1;
> }
>
>No, I guess not. ;)
Gack. Looks like a mis-placed optimization in perl 5. The list of a foreach
is *supposed* to flatten at loop start and be static. Apparently not. :)
Care to file the perl 5 bug report, or shall I?
Dan
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