[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Siracusa) writes: > Don't you think it's preferable to temp-expanding and compiling at runtime?
Not if it's slower, no. The choice was made not to go with bytecode because of a deficiency in Perl. If that deficiency wasn't there, then sure, go with bytecode. But you're missing the point, so I'll say it again: IT DOESN'T MATTER. > The slides about the internals do start with "Here begins the scary part" For heaven's sake. Have you even *seen* the Perl 5 internals? If you don't trust things which are self-declared scary hackery to be stable, you probably shouldn't be using Perl until Perl 6 comes out. And probably not until then. Look, we're not going to agree on this. Should we just drop the subject? -- "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." -- The Tao of Programming
