Re: RFC 98 (v1) context-based method overloading

[Graham Barr]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:00:17PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
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> It will run faster, because it doesn't have to evaluate
> the want().

I am not so sure. Many subs that test want() do it after running
common code. Now you will either have to duplicate code between
the subs (thats bad) or extract that code into a common sub
and have the extra sub call as an overhead.

There may be a few cases where it may be a win, but I suspect they are in
the minority.

Graham.