Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.language : > > In theory, yes, if you ask it to check in a CHECK block, and if you're > willing for the check to assume that no eval or INIT block is going > to supply the missing sub before it's actually called, and that no > run-time code is going to alias the sub into one of your namespaces > where it'll be visible to call, and that no AUTOLOAD in scope will > be willing to emulate it. (But then, all that's true of Perl 5 right > now as well...)
While we're at it. Is there some precise definition of the CHECK/INIT blocks for perl 6 right now ? In perl 5 those blocks are executed at the transition between the compilation and the execution phase *of the main program*. This is convenient for some purposes (the O and B::* modules) and inconvient for others (Attribute::Handlers, etc. etc.). It's not feasible to modify this for Backwards Compatibility Reasons; how will Perl 6 handle this ? is there going to be a CHECK-by-compilation-unit kind of block ?
