On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Lisp goes even farther down the road of blurring the boundary between > interpreter and compiler than Perl does. You can even run code at read > time, when the program is being parsed by the compiler (or interpreter). > Some people aren't aware that Lisp is primarily a compiled language > (which I bet is also true for Perl). Even so, nobody thinks Lisp is a > "scripting language." Go figure.
Um, you can do that in Perl as well. See Lingua::Romana::Perligata for an amusing demonstration of exactly what you can choose to do to code at read time. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
