Re: a name for the currently executing sub

[Dan Sugalski]

At 06:35 PM 2/5/2001 -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
>Are we willing to let user-code use codereftagstrings abckwards yet?

Yes, we are.

>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 isn't really what I'd consider a good thing, but raw memory access in 
perl would be convenient. There'll probably be a special type of reference 
that lets you do that. (Only needs a few changes to the vtable code, too)

                                        Dan

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