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

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