Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

2001-06-04 Thread David L. Nicol
Hong Zhang wrote: based scheme itself. For example, an local variable is not used by any of the code, however an eval($s) may refer to it. So should optimizer eliminate the local? Hong mark blocks that have closures in them, in those, you can't throw any locals out. Otherwise, you can

RE: Python...

2001-06-04 Thread David Grove
Perl is far more practical than experimental. Not at the moment. That's the problem. (Note the subtle subject change back to its original intent.) p

Properties and stricture

2001-06-04 Thread Me
Afaict, even with use strict at its most strict, perl 6 can't (in practice) complain, at compile time, if $foo.Foun refers to an undeclared Foun. Right? Should there be a strict mode that warns if a method name matches a built in property name?