Bart Lateur:
> If your P5->P6 translator is slow, i.e. written
> in Perl, this would imply a pretty big performace hit.
It is better for translated programs to do the right thing slowly than
to do the wrong thing as quickly as possible.
> What would help is a debugging mode that prints out the
> converted code string,
This is such a debugging mode.
The translated script will run properly and do the right thing without
intervention, although it may run slowly. The programmer can modify
the perl5_eval code so that it issues a warning or calls 'die' or
whatever.
The programmer can also examine the occurrences of 'perl5_eval' in the
source code to decide whether they can be converted immediately to
plain 'eval'.
Once all the appearances of perl5_eval have been replaced, the
translator is no longer needed.
Mark-Jason Dominus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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