--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:30 AM -0400 7/16/02, Karl Glazebrook wrote: > >I still feel this adds yet another layer of inconsistency and > >confusion. I can't look at a piece of code and know what it does, > >without referring up N lines to the top of the scripts. > > > >How is the infinite loop problem any different from other Halting > problems? > > It's not, the issue's really with what's better for the common case, > which probably won't be PDL stuff. (Unfortunately--I think it's a > nifty realm to work in) >
Instead of requiring a pragma to use, why not leave it on by default, but required a pragma or a command line option to suppress the warnings when "potentially exponential time required" operations take place? That is, the math guys say #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w -math and the one-off guys say no matherrors; and the CGI wonks say "Holy cow, that wasn't what I meant to do! Thanks, perl-parser!" =Austin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com
