Re: var watcher behaviour

Jochen Stenzel <[email protected]> writes:
>(Of course, this is only a solution if
>we can be sure that ALL perl statements which MODIFY a variable result in only ONE
>internal write access. Am I right?)

"statement" is a vague word. 

$foo++ for (1..1000000);

is one "statement" that writes $foo many times.

I think most perl o_ps_ will (in the absence 
of ties or other C-level magic) only write it once. You cannot 
tell what XS code might do, or ties.

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Nick Ing-Simmons <[email protected]>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.