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That said, inspiration hit me whilst typing this and I stuck the code is a begin block

...and something else may hit you six months from now when the underlying implementation changes for any number of reasons.
if you want C code, best to code in C.

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Re^4: Internals question.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 23, 2007 at 17:31 UTC

    But 6 days from now, the intellectual spark that motivated me to explore the idea that brought this up will either be satisfied or discarded. Unless I use C, in which case, I'll still be trying to code it 6 months from now.

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