On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On 2012.5.13 3:41 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > > Perl used to have this. It was called #include. It's a damned shame > > that -P got killed off. Removing it was hateful. > Let's run one language through another language's preprocessor! WHAT COULD > POSSIBLY GO WRONG?! Let's just see what the old 5.10.1 perlrun man page says > about it...
None of which stops it from being a damned useful tool. You just need to be careful with it. I thought that perl was all about giving you a gun and if you shot your own foot off that was your own stupid fault. > I can't imagine why they removed it. Wait, yes I can! Jarko and I wrote > those warnings after trying like hell to make it work in anything like a > reliable manner. I wouldn't mind if it was disabled by default and if I had to explicitly enable it per file, with something like 'no strict cpp'. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Feature: an incorrectly implemented bug
