> So you want to declare subs, then run the subs at compile time and replace
> the block in the source with the output from the sub? Well, that's
> ambitious, I'll give you that.
Perl 5 already has this in the (somewhat cumbersome) form of source filters.
I'll have an RFC describing a way to integrate and simplify those for Perl 6.
> I'm not entirely sure that you want a preprocessor
> that's *that* flexible, but I did ask for it...
Oh, believe me, you *do*.
I could never have implemented switch.pm or Perligata.pm without source
filters. Hmmmm. I suppose some people might claim that's a good and
sufficient reason *not* to have them! :-)
Damian
