On 06/14/2018 10:30 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
In short, pragmas are all-same-case "use" names; instead of loading
code, they tell the compiler to change its behavior.
The MONKEY-* pragmas generally control various kinds of unsafe or
dangerous behavior, including direct access to the mechanisms underneath
/ "supporting" Rakudo and things like EVAL. Other all-uppercase names
also generally represent "dangerous" actions or options.
There are a few pragmas that are all lowercase instead of all uppercase;
they also change the compiler's behavior, but are safer than the
all-uppercase ones. "use lib" is one of them. (This is why modules are
generally mixed-case names.)
Thank you!
Speaking of dangerous, go find a perl program being run by root,
inject some code into one of its modules, and ...
