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On Friday 23 March 2007, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Eg. I have @'c' which is sugar for (!'c' .) * 'c', but if the user types
> the second expression, he will get a non-optimized bytecode... Detecting
> such constructs and folding them to the specialized opcode will come
> later... if ever!

AFAIK, using syntactic sugar means generating the same bytecode as the 'model' 
expression.  having a special opcode is not sugar, it's meat.

-- 
Javier

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