On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:19:14PM +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:

>  On the more helpful side; you can get a reference to the number  
>  passed in by using \$_[0] inside the function.  I still don't think  
>  you should rely on perl not reusing integer literals passed to  
>  functions.

Experimenting with making the tokeniser re-use the (read only) integer (and
string) constants it finds during parsing was something I was considering
investigating once I get some CFT. Life is a bit hectic currently.

Nicholas Clark