?CALLER::BLOCK vs. any hope of efficient compilation

2005-06-14 Thread Chip Salzenberg
I'd like a ruling that ?CALLER::BLOCK is not a general-purpose block promoter, but only works if the calling block already marked itself as callable, perhaps by mentioning ?BLOCK in its body. First, I like the idea that all blocks act as if they were subs WRT being callable and accepting

Re: ?CALLER::BLOCK vs. any hope of efficient compilation

2005-06-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:13:08PM +0200, Chip Salzenberg wrote: : It therefore would a Bad Thing if ?CALLER::BLOCK worked generally. : If the caller _is_ a block that was already marked at compile time as : requiring full sub properties then, of course, it's no problem to use : the syntax