# -----Original Message-----
# From: Dave Storrs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
# Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:59 PM
# To: The Perl6 Language List
# Subject: Re: Source/Program metadata from within a program
#
# On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
#
# > Access to the source code.
#
# Particularly comments and POD.
Cool--I'd suggest a special $*CODE filehandle, to match $*DATA (that
isn't going away, is it?).
# I'd also like to be able to access information on the
# particular perl that
# is running this program...e.g., does it support 64-bit nums,
# what is the
# endianness of the native numbers, does it support threads and
# (if so) what
# threading model (though this is probably a moot point in P6,
# perhaps it
# is something that could be included into 5.8.x).
Can't this sort of thing be in Config.pm (or its equivalent)? Since
Parrot needs to know things like endian-ness and for reading precompiled
bytecode anyway, we might as well make it convenient...
--Brent Dax
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"...and if the answers are inadequate, the pumpqueen will be overthrown
in a bloody coup by programmers flinging dead Java programs over the
walls with a trebuchet."
