Alex Burr writes: > In theory you could write one as a perl6 macro, although it would be > more convenient if there was someway of obtaining the syntax tree of a > previously defined function other than quoting it (unless I've missed > that?).
There is a large class of cool optimizations possible when you combine notifications with storing the syntax tree at runtime, so I think it will be possible to get the syntax tree of a previously defined function. Probably just a method on Code objects. > But I confidently predict that no-one with write a useful > partial evaluator for perl6. The language is simply too big. Then again, there are some very talented people with a lot of free time in the Perl community; I wouldn't count it out. Luke
