in reply to Re^4: Executing a string as a Perl command
in thread Executing a string as a Perl command

If it contains a number and the subroutine needs to do some more computations, then you've just forced perl to convert the number to a string and back.

Which is still negligible, especially when one is about to spawn another process.

xoxo,
Andy

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