Re: PDD: Conventions and Guidelines for Perl Source Code

[Benjamin Sugars]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 09:33 AM 5/9/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> 
> >I think that's silly.  You misuse a variable that requires an auto, the
> >compile dies, that's all.  And macros can be very useful for an abstraction
> >layer that intended to *hide* the implementation.  Hoisting implementation
> >details into the name defeats that abstraction.
> 
> I really, *really* don't want to hide very much of the implementation 
> details at the C code level. We do that right now, and it makes for a 
> twisty maze of macros, all alike. And the resulting C code bears very 
> little resemblance to what's actually written. (I've seen size increases of 
> two orders of magnitude--20 characters of source text become 2K or more 
> after macro expansion)

But isn't that the whole point of macros?  Who wants to see the same 2K of
code at the top of every function?

Cheers,
-Ben

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