On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 03:41:57PM -0600, Tushar Samant wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Peter Scott wrote: > >[...] saying that someone else who had written > > > > $|++; > > > >should have written it as > > > > $| = 1; > > > >since it executes faster (and produced Benchmark data to prove it). > > > >Think about it. > > Well I did, and my head hurts a bit, but I think I know what it means. > In fact I benchmarked them right now and it's true. On my machine the > latter is almost 8 microseconds faster. I will be properly grateful as > soon as I stop laughing. Peace More importantly, what if some smart-ass library author decided to write $| = -1; -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe