On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> I think as long as we specify the features we need in our language RFCs, the
> internals folks will identify the common threads needed to implement them.
> This means that we should ensure that efficiency goals should be spelled out
> in each RFC where it makes sense.
Yup, and not where it doesn't. (That's a semi-common problem I've seen
with RFCs--folks see the need to specify things that ought to be
invisible, or base a feature on what is really a quirk of implementation)
Lists will end up at least semi-lazy for efficiency reasons if nothing
else. I do enough:
@foo = <FILE>;
or
@bar{values %foo} = keys %foo;
or
@baz = some_sub();
on zillion-element things that I really want to avoid temps as much as
possible.
Dan
