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in thread map {} list or do {} for list?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't optimized away.

I meant that when reading the code, map says "Hey! Pay attention to the return values of this code block, we're making a list of them."

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Re^6: map {} list or do {} for list?
by jethro (Monsignor) on Apr 15, 2014 at 09:30 UTC

    Well, the same could be said of "$i++;'. In other words, if god had not meant us to throw away results, he wouldn't have given us void context ;-)

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