Re: Things I Don't Use in Perl

[haoess]

• study (always forget it when it is needed)
• prototype
• formline

-- Frank

[rjbs]

My understanding of "when study is needed" was: never. I thought that the results of studying were never used, these days. Is that not true?

[duff]

I think study does as it always did. It analyzes the string and builds a data structure from it such that repeated REs on that string are ever so slightly more efficient in execution time.