Chip Salzenberg wrote in perl.perl6.language : > In (re?)examining the Apocalypses, I've found something that confuses me a > bit. A2 refers to C<MY> as a "pseudopackage" and says: > > __LINE__ becomes MY.line > __FILE__ " MY.file > [...] > > With regard to C<MY>: > > 2. What are "line" and "file"? Properties? Class variables? > (Probably not class variables since C<MY> is not called a class.)
That's the implementation problem ;-) In perl 5, __LINE__, __FILE__ and __PACKAGE__ are replaced at compile-time (in fact, at tokenizing-time) by the appropriate constants. The question is : to which kind of bytecode MY.file (etc.) get compiled ? -- Rafael Garcia-Suarez : http://use.perl.org/~rafael/
