Hi,
while responding to nothingmuch++'s post "function signatures?", I
thought that it'll be great if Code objects were fully introspectable.
I.e.:
&foo.statements; # List of statements
&foo.statements[0] # First statement
&foo.statements[2] = ...; # Statement modification?
And all objects returned from the introspection methods should stringify
appropriately, so that...
say ~sub { 42 + $^a }; # prints
sub ($a) { return 42 + $a; }
Is this going too far?
Is this wanted?
Is it useful?
(At least readonly access would be nice, as allowing writes to
&foo.statements will make compiler optimisations much
harder/impossible.)
--Ingo
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