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in reply to Re^5: getting rid of special features
in thread getting rid of costly special features

No, we're not only talking about autoincrement, we are also talking about empty // being special-cased and so on.

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Re^7: getting rid of special features
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2013 at 17:03 UTC
    how is it special-cased, and how is it a problem, and a problem for translation?