At 06:37 AM 8/7/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>Are there any (p5p) pragmas that have a runtime effect?
strict, for one. Warnings for another.
>Would requiring/limiting pragmas to have a strictly compile time effect
>have a win for internals (performance, development, whatever)?
Probably, but perl's dynamic enough that I don't think it's feasable.
I've been thinking we could have a "state change" op that would selectively
and lexically alter the appropriate state variable (warnings, stricture,
shell, taint checking, whatever) on the fly. Each op would check the
current state if the situation warranted, rather than sprinkling "check
this assumption" ops througout the code.
Dan
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