>>>>> "JV" == Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JV> Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> i think reading the file may have issues like finding it. or doc strings
>> for each sub vs. parsing that out of the whole pod. i just bothers me to
>> have to read that file for stuff that was in the source. so some better
>> syntax to make that accessible to the code seems like a win.
JV> A neglectible one.
JV> Remember, 99.99% of the times this is used to fetch a final (fatal?)
JV> usage or help message. It is not something that is done 400 times
JV> during the lifetime of a common program.
i have a new use for this, which is getting help text from long lived
objects (which could be remote). that will not be a fatal/final
message. i would like the speed to be decent and going to a file (and
parsing the pod and filtering) is not a good solution IMO.
as i said, there are workarounds and we now have an rfc on this
subject. that is all i wanted, to bring this matter up.
uri
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