in reply to Perlish Debugging Style

My assembly language days have me thinking "now why is he commenting out all those lines of code...?" Bringing my Perl brain cells back on line, I'd say that the tiny decrease in interpreter speed is well worth it for the additional clarity of delineating debugging code. radiantmatrix++

Don Wilde
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Re^2: Perlish Debugging Style
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 01, 2006 at 18:18 UTC
    What tiny decrease? Once its compiled, the empty statements don't show up anymore. Or do you mean compilation speed?
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      Initial parse, yes.

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