Re: new syntax idea: eval "..."o;

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:27:43 -0400, John Porter wrote:

>David L. Nicol wrote:
>>      eval ${code}o;
>
>Another brilliant idea from David Nicol!

Not really.

What I would like is an option to just *compile* a piece of perl code,
without executing it. This kinda works:

        $coderef = eval "sub { $code }";

and currently (5.6.0) even if $code contains sub definitions; but it's
still just a hack.

-- 
        Bart.