Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So optimizing to a state variable won't necessarily help your loop > overhead, but it could help your subroutine overhead, at least in Perl > 5, if Perl 5 had state variables. Best you can do in Perl 5 is an > "our" variable with an obscure name.
my $x if 0; I know it's *going* away, but it hasn't *gone* away yet. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker "I might be an idiot, but not a stupid one." --c.l.p.misc (name omitted to protect the foolish)