Re: pads and lexicals

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 02:35:53PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> The Perl equivalent $a = $a + $a*$b requires a
> temporary PMC to store the intermediate result ($a*$b)

Probably a temporary INT or NUM register, in fact. But I see
your point. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the PMC registers
had spare PMCs knocking around to store this kind of thing.

Simon