On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:14:49 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>The perl 5 -> perl 6 translator should replace calls to 'eval' with
>calls to 'perl5_eval', which will recursively call the 5->6 translator
>to translate the eval'ed string into perl 6, and will then eval the
>result.
Blech, no. eval should stay eval. People are responsible for generating
Perl6 compatible code, if they construct code as strings on the fly.
Warning people when converting a script from perl5 to perl6, that a eval
STRING has been found, is a good idea.
--
Bart.
