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From: "Sascha Kimmel" <kimmel@tricos.com>
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Subject: RE: I feel a bit discriminated
Date: 21 Jun 2000 08:31:09 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter von der Ahé [mailto:nospam2159@cs.au.dk]
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 7:04 PM
> To: usergroup@mjolner.dk
> Subject: Re: I feel a bit discriminated
>
>
> >>>>> "SK" == Sascha Kimmel <tricos@bravenewweb.net> writes:
>
>  SK> In BETA it is IMPOSSIBLE to concatenate strings as in the most
>
> [...]
>
>  SK> In BETA you would need to do this the follwing way:
>
> [...]
>
>  SK> thisstring[]->string.append;
>
> OK, so please explain the big difference between appending to a string
> and concatenation :-)
>
> Most of the time spend in coping strings in memory as result of string
> concatenation could be eliminated if you have to think before you do:
>
> print $string1.$string2;
>
> or
>
> print "$string1.$string2";
>
> As both of these are inefficient compared to:
>
> print $string1, $string2;
>
> or
>
> printf "%s%s", $string1, $string2;
>
> unless perl has very clever optimizations.  Thus I think that you does
> not need string interpolation in BETA, as this tends to make programs
> inefficient.  Think of strings as immutable objects, and you'll write
> more efficient program.

Again: you very very often EMBED HTML code in your Perl scripts, so
splitting it up again and again does NOT make understanding or modification
very easy.
It the question: theroretical or preactical?

Regards,
Sascha Kimmel