Re: Language RFC Summary 4th August 2000

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:40 AM 8/5/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >   > It definitely is, since formats do things that can't be done in 
> modules.
> >
> >Such as???
>
>Quite.
>
>Even in perl5 an XS module can do _anything at all_.

It can't access data the lexer's already tossed out. That's where the 
current format format (so to speak) runs you into trouble.

                                        Dan

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