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Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > At 12:33 AM 9/29/02 +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >Before uploading to CPAN, I would like to ask p5p for comments on my > >latest endeavour: jit.pm. > >Thanks in advance for any comments, remarks and flames (not too hot, > >please). > > Thank you all for your feedback. The only real problem that people > seem to have with jit.pm, is really the name. > > I therefore propose to change the name to "subs.pm". I realize there > is a subs pragma already, but I think I can make it work both in the > old and the new format (with minimal breakage if someone happens to > have specified only subroutine names that are keywords in the new > format). > > use subs 'now'; > use subs 'ondemand'; > > Seems natural to me. > > Would that be an idea? Or does someone have an even better name than > "jit" or "subs" ? If the syntax were: use subs ':now'; use subs ':ondemand'; you could avoid breakage entirely. -- How many Monks would a Chipmonk chip, if a Chipmonk could chip Monks?Thread Previous | Thread Next