On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:40:13PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> TC> But Perl is not an interactive shell! Can you imagine if a C
> TC> compiler allowed arbitrary amounts of text to be pre-included
>
> and what about the proposals for an interactive perl? maybe they should
> support this.
That can be handled totally differently. Shell::Config or something.
Similar to CPAN::Config.
So the basic problem here, leaving all the minor problems aside, is we
have no concrete use for this feature. There's been a few
half-hearted attempts at things this might be useful for maybe, but it
all boils down to "somebody will find it useful to do something
somewhere."
I'd suggest we put a hold on further discussion about caveats and
implementations until someone really justifies this thing.
--
Michael G Schwern http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just Another Stupid Consultant Perl6 Kwalitee Ashuranse
Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada
the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by detonation.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
