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| DATE | 2005-03-09 |
| FROM | Contrarian
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Perl and stacks
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>> If I sound like I dont know what I am talking about let me know, I am
>> supplementing my classwork with reading about this stuff on my own.
>> They cover too much syntax and not enough theory.
> sorry, my last msg. should have read
> your_logon% perldoc perlguts
your surmise was correct, there are many references to perl's
stack there:
"Mortal" SVs are mainly used for SVs that are placed on perl's stack.
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the current offset on the Perl internal stack (cf. "SP") is
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The stack arguments are accessible through the ST(n) macro, which
returns the "n"'th stack argument.
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This macro automatically adjust the stack for you, if needed. Thus,
you do not need to call "EXTEND" to extend the stack.
and from Uri Guttman, on comp.lang.perl.misc 4/1999
in a discussion of state machines:
"this will crash your perl when it runs out of stack."
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