At 11:44 AM 5/1/2002 -0500, Allison Randal wrote:
>On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:22:29PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> >
> > NAME
> >     Acme::Don't - The opposite of `do'
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
>       ...
> >
> >     Note that the code in the `don't' block must be syntactically valid
> >     Perl. This is an important feature: you get the accelerated performance
> >     of not actually executing the code, without sacrificing the security of
> >     compile-time syntax checking.
>
>Um... I know it's scary, but I can actually imagine using this (or
>something like this) in development. I'll occasionally work on a section
>of code I'm not ready to integrate yet. It would be nice to be able to
>syntax check it without uncommenting and re-commenting the whole thing.
>:)

Doesn't if(0) do the job? :)

-Melvin

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