in reply to Re: Help Explain Behavior
in thread Help Explain Behavior

Yes I figured as much. But that's exactly what's been bothering me. You say the script has been already compiled! How is that? I thought Perl is interpreted.
Please pardon my ignorance and enlighten me...

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Re^3: Help Explain Behavior
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 20, 2012 at 21:45 UTC
    Your source is compiled into an internal form (a parse tree) which is then optimized before being run.

    Cheers Rolf

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