Re: Schwartzian transforms

[John Porter]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> It doesn't really matter if the functions inside the sort function are 
> idempotent--what matters is whether it's OK for us to go and memoize the 
> things (or whatever else we might choose to do)

Exactly, that's what I've been trying to say.
And that's why I propose the :constant/:function/:pure/:stateless
attribute, so that perl only has to trust the programmer to say
which functions can be memoized.

-- 
John Porter

Give the braindead no head.