[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!
Yeah, but we still control what they get. We've not gone so completely mad that we hand in strings and code snippets for runtime evaluation...
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