On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:50:24PM -0500, James Mastros wrote: > Why? For at least x86, your way will be a lot slower.
Maybe I should try to find out why Perl 5 does it like that before making such pronouncements. :) Nick, any idea why Perl's abs doesn't use abs? Simon -- The primary difference between a teenage male and an adult man is that a man has learned to think of something else *while* he's thinking of sex. - Mark Atwood