Re: Flexible parsing (was Tying & Overloading)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:30 PM 4/29/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 02:44:17PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Well, I was thinking that generally the site policy would be expressed 
> in a
> > single file
>
>This smells strangely familiar.  Alot like the .perlrc discussion that
>was had back many moons ago.  The havoc a general syntax-altering
>policy file could wreck would be enourmous.
>
>To use a Perl 5 example, consider the simple setting of "use strict"
>as a general site policy.  Basicaly, most of the Perl code in your
>/usr/bin will explode when you try to run it.

Right, that's why the policy stuff we're discussing is optional... :)

                                        Dan

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