You really shouldn't be worryomg about use of reseources at this level.

Focus on good style, readability, ease of coding, major performance issues, and all that other good stuff.

A decent compiler should optimise this sort of construct down to almost nothing (at most a single extra test), which will not be noticeable in the overall performance unless it is in the inside of a very tight loop.

Perl already does some interesting tricks, such as removing if statements from the code and replacing it with and/or, so trying to second guess what the byte code looks like is a waste of time.

The gain you will get in readability and hence reuse, ability to maintain should outweigh any effect in the code.
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Brovnik

In reply to Re: For - Loop construct 'cheaper' than local variable? by Brovnik
in thread One-shot code critique by patgas

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