Re: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Monday 03 September 2001 09:57 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Oh, it gets better. Imagine injecting a lexically scoped sub into the
> caller's lexical scope. Overriding one that's already there. (Either
> because it was global, or because it was lexically defined at the same or
> higher level)
>
> Needless to say, this makes the optimizer's job... interesting. On the
> other hand, it does allow for some really powerful things to be done by
> code at runtime.

This is more or less how you will be able to write your own lexically scoped 
pragmas.

And yes, I'm sure it will be abused.

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Bryan C. Warnock
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