Re: pramgas as compile-time-only

[Graham Barr]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 12:03:36PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 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.

This could solve the problem of running out of bits in the OPs to
add a new flag etc. and make it much more easy to add new pragmas

Graham.