Re: RFC 214 (v1) Emit warnings and errors based on unoptimized code

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 07:24:26AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> >   print "what's that, $perl?";
> > 
> >   Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at -e line 1.
> 
> > This is misleading and confuses users.  When Perl needs to report
> > errors or warnings, it should describe the code the programmer wrote,
> > regardless of how that's been translated within Perl.
> 
> Nice!
Efficient!
Practical!

Choose two.

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Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum.
                -- D. Gries