Re: Please make "last" work in "grep"

[Michael G Schwern]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:05:54PM +0200, H. Merijn Brand wrote:
> IIRC, that optimization is not even considered for reasons of many people
> wanting the side effects of grep/map finishing over all elements (which could
> of course be from a tied array or database connection)

If we could determine if the block has no side effects... oh wait,
everything in Perl has a side effect.  ;)


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