[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: > if ($foo > 10) { > print $foo; > } > This is mainly because of the possibility of tied or > overridden namespaces, which would argue for a refetch on each use.
No, come on, Dan. It's far worse than that. It'll be possible, from Perl-space to override either > or print, and it should well be possible for them to, for instance, tie their operands. Wee! -- >but I'm one guy working weekends - what the hell is MS's excuse? "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company." - Ben Jemmet, Paul Tomblin.