Contemplating it a little bit more myself the past days, I came up with the following reasons:
- Simplicity
- The way it's written by merlyn is simpler to understand. It is in fact pseudo-code, not real code.
- Already an object
- The input may already consist of a reference or an object: no need to take a further reference in that case.
- Alias / Copy On Write
- Perl shouldn't have to copy the contents of $_. You could consider it a bug that it does so now. I'm pretty sure this innefficiency won't exist in Perl 6.
Liz
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