Re: a name for the currently executing sub

[Peter Scott]

At 06:35 PM 2/5/01 -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:

>--- warning --- bad idea follows ---

You're not kidding.

>Are we willing to let user-code use codereftagstrings abckwards yet?
>
>perl -le '$a = \(1..4); $tagstring="$a"; print @{$tagstring}'
>
>We would eliminate all strings matching /^[A-Z]\(0x[0-9a-f]+\)\z/ from
>use as variable names. I don't think that would break all that much but
>the 5->6 converter could identify ref->stringify and mung it slightly,
>maybe add a \0 at the end or something.
>
>We would gain C style casting capability, with all the evil that brings
>with it, including the ability to bittwiddle perl structures from
>within perl, which is a feature migrating C programmers miss.

This migrated C programmer misses it like intestinal flu.

Can you come up with one remotely useful example?
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies