in reply to Re: Ampersands and sub speed
in thread Ampersands and sub speed

No... goto() doesn't return to the next statement. This is a fancy way of saying function( @_ ).

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Re^3: Ampersands and sub speed
by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 15, 2005 at 12:39 UTC

    Closer, but they're still not the same. This code works,

    sub f { &g; print @_; } sub g { $_[0] .= "o, w"; push @_, "orld\n"; } +f($x = "hell");
    but if you change it like this, it breaks:
    sub f { g(@_); print @_; } sub g { $_[0] .= "o, w"; push @_, "orld\n"; + } f($x = "hell");

      Oh ok. That's even more evil than I would have normally thought. So &do_nothing; is like @_=do_nothing(@_) except that it doesn't make copies like would happen in that snippet.