Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

[Peter Scott]

At 01:10 PM 10/24/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote:
>On 23 Oct 2000, at 15:40, Peter Scott wrote:
> > What about introducing a pragma which either (a) promises not to use such
> > things, or (b) throws an exception if the program does use such 
> constructs,
> > and say "if you want your programs to be compilable (or compile to
> > something a heck of a lot lighter), say 'use strict "compilation"' or
> > whatever"?
>
>Hm, but such code (for non-trivial programs) will re-invent the wheel a
>whole lot, won't it? Since "use" includes a "require". (On the other
>hand, it's a require in a BEGIN block, so that may not be a problem
>after all.)

Well, the idea was that people developing a script they intended to be 
compiled one day would have feedback on whether or not it could be done (or 
done with an overhead) whenever they tried executing it, rather than only 
finding out when they tried compiling it, which could be somewhat less 
frequently.


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies