On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:01:20PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Larry Wall writes:
>> I'd entertain a proposal that ... be made a valid term that happens
>> to do nothing, so that you can run your examples through perl -c for
>> syntax checks.  Or better, make it an official "stub" for rapid
>> prototyping, with some way of getting a warning whenever you execute
>> such a stub.
>
>This is the coolest suggestion made so far for perl6.  I love it.
>
>Runtime behaviour of '...' is to warn "unimplemented behaviour".  With
>use strict 'development', it dies "unimplemented behaviour" at
>compile-time.

Hear hear!

Great idea.  Who'll RFC it?  Or shall I?

K.

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