Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 10:55:52PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > 
> > Well, damn. And I mean that sincerely. :(
> 
> I don't think it's that big a deal.  Easy enough to wrap in a macro.

I thought (hoped) that the plan was the avoid the cpp like the plague
and cancer it is.  The massive overdose of cpp magic is one of the
main reasons why understanding/debugging/developing Perl 5 core is
so much fun.

This example is slightly off because most of the "fun" is courtesy
gcc, not perl, but I think it illustrates the point quite nicely.

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-08/msg01810.html

> -- 
> John Porter

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