On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 19:55:20 -0500 John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has there been any discussion of how to create code in Perl 6 that's > there under some conditions, but not there under others? I'm thinking > of the spiritual equivalent of #ifdef, only Perlish. If the perl6 command-line options are anything like perl5 then you can just use the -P switch if preprocessor commands are your thing. > In Perl 5, there were many attempts to use such a feature for > debugging and assertions. There has also been a proposal for patching perl5 to add assertions which was recently discussed[1] on p5p, which if accepted has implications for assertions in perl6 surely. Dan [1] http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-11/msg00325.html