Re: [MacPerl] Coding style

["Emmanuel. M. Decarie" <emm@cam.org>]

Thanks Chris and Raffael for your answers.

Ė (At) 10:47 -0500 04/02/99, Chris Nandor ˇcrivait (wrote) :
>At 08.26 -0500 1999.02.04, Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote:
>>myFunc(\@global);
>>
>>or
>>
>>@global = myFunc(\@global);
>
>The problem is that the latter is slower.  Readability is good, but if
>@global is sufficiently large, it can be quite slow.  Frankly, though, I
>have no problem with the first one insofar as readability goes.  I would
>look at the latter and say "why?".

Ok, just to be sure, I guess the second way is slower because myFunc is reassigning the value to @global ? 
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