Re: Recording what we decided *not* to do, and why

[John Porter]

Larry Wall wrote:
> 
> As long as everyone realizes that I might reject a good many "Good"
> things ...

Oh, natch!


> For embedded comments, we might rather see some kind of
> macro facility that could turn qc// or any other quoted form into a
> list of zero or more tokens.

This is precisely what I had in mind, except
s/macro facility/the compiler/, since qw() is handled there,
if I'm not mistaken.  But a standardized macro facility would
be nice.  Although -- wouldn't it have to parse perl?  Or else
have a wholly distinct grammar?

-- 
John Porter

        Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht.