On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:45:56AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : Another issue in "if" optimization is whether the blocks in fact do : anything blockish that have to be scoped to the block. This is a : determination that Perl 5 makes when it's compiling blocks. It's : basically an attribute that migrates up the tree from the leaves, which : are mostly "true", but anyone in the block can falsify the attribute : for the block as a whole.
Actually, I said that backwards. It starts out false and gets truified if anyone says "Yes, we gotta have a block around us." Larry
