"Myers, Dirk" wrote:
> I still find this whole idea confusing, though. Just out of curiosity,
> though, would:
>
> #include a way for users to bail out gracefully
>
> be a syntax error?
It is clear to us that that is a comment and not a preprocessor directive.
The #include preprocessor directive is more than match /^#include/ it is
more like (/^#include (".+")\s*\Z/ or /^#include (<.+>)\s*\Z/). And anything
that would be a syntax error in C, a poorly formed preprocessor directive, is
a simple Perl comment.
> And how about:
>
> int length = 256 ;
>
> and, if that's legal, what does:
>
> print "I wonder what this is : " . length ;
>
> do?
I imagine the first order of business for the C JIT team would be
some conversion operators. Numeric types stringify into decimal representation,
no reason to throw that away.
> Dirk
thanks for your support
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