On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> It seems to me that a perl5 program exists as several things:
>  - pure source code (ASCII or Unicode)
>  - a stream of tokens from the parser
>  - a munged stream of tokens from the parser (e.g., use Foo has
>    become  BEGIN { require Foo; Foo->import })
>  - an unthreaded and unoptimized optree

Isn't there a tree of whatchamacallits between a token stream and
the optree, and also a symbol table?  I'm not too up on compilers...


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