On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:56:37 -0500 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:19:16 -0500 "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmich...@pobox.com> wrote: PRM> I suspect something like CALLER::<$?FILE> and CALLER::<$?LINE> might PRM> eventually do what you want -- they would at least get to a unique PRM> line within the calling. CALLER:: and $?FILE and $?LINE are not PRM> yet implemented in Rakudo, but I suspect the language specification PRM> has sufficient features to eventually make a clean implementation a PRM> possibility. TZ> (also suggested by Moritz with state variables as the real solution) TZ> I could have used __LINE__ in Perl 5 as well but chose not to so TZ> multiple calls to every() could be made on the same line. I'd like to TZ> provide the same functionality in Rakudo. So state variables seem like TZ> the easiest solution outside of the core and I can wait until they are TZ> available. If anyone thinks every() could go in the core or really TZ> wants to see it ported sooner let me know :) Are state variables available now, or is the every(N) functionality possible in some other way now? Thanks Ted
