Re: [Fun With Perl] crunching the modules at @INC

[Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>]

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> /o is only meaningful when the pattern contains variables.  It doesn't do
> any harm if the pattern is constant, but it doesn't do any good either.

Some might say that "oh, I'll just put it on everything, then", but I've
been bitten by that, because I would instictively add a /o on all regexes,
and so the time that I was actually building a regex each time through a
loop...

xoxo,
Andy

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