<div dir="ltr">Touché :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:15 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at" target="_blank">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 01/18/2014 06:59 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:<br>
> Ah... I've seen this in some of the help patches. Why would someone do it<br>
> with multiple [+~] instead of a single [*~]? There's no difference?<br>
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</div>aesthetic reasons?<br>
hinting at bigger structures?<br>
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but consider this: why would someone write the following code?<br>
> #!/usr/bin/perl<br>
> sleep((8*60)*60);<br>
<br>
it does the same as the following (which is slightly faster):<br>
> #!/usr/bin/perl<br>
> sleep(28800);<br>
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gfamdsr<br>
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