>>>>> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:03:51 +0100, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

  > I anticipated this.  From the docs...

  >        Perl has alot of wierd features.  We love Perl for it, but
  >        it makes predictable refactorings really difficult.  This
  >        module attempts to find (hopefully rare) uses of such
  >        features.

  >        We're not passing judgement on them, just noting that they
  >        can make program behavior hard to predict.

Thanks for the clarification. Now that makes sense.

  > I spent a night hacking up a B module and suddenly I know the secrets
  > of the universe?  (The answer, at least according to what I can see,
  > is no).  <Obvious Baiting>I'll bet even Abigail couldn't figure that
  > one out!</Obvious Baiting>

  > This is an interesting bit of hackery, though...

  > $ perl -cwe 'sub __ANON__::BEGIN { print 23 }  BEGIN { print 42 }'
  > -e syntax OK
  > 2342

  > Don't know where that gets you, though.

I already had the impression XML had something to contribute to save
the world.

-- 
andreas

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