Re: Expunge implicit @_ passing

[David L. Nicol]

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> If you *really* wanted to write an optimized redirector, you'd
> have the redirector eliminate itself.
> 
>   sub foo {
>     my $method = $_[0]->{"_foo"} || $_[0]->can("_foo");
>     {
>         no warnings 'redefine';
>         *foo = $method;
>     }
>     goto &$method;
>   }


:)
It's nice to see that someone looked at the import method in
Pollute::Persistent

At some point I came up with a list of Ways Life Would Improve
If Perl Had Tail-Recursion, or something like that.  It largely
hinged on being able to access the calling context more aggressively
than returning a value back into it, was a side-effect of something
else, or required something else which had other beneficial effects.

Sorry about the vagueness



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