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Re: Things to remove

From:
Larry Wall
Date:
August 21, 2000 18:04
Subject:
Re: Things to remove
Message ID:
200008220100.SAA25096@kiev.wall.org
damian@conway.org writes:
: How about this then:
: 
: In a void context, C<dump> dumps the program's current opcode representation
: to its filehandle argument (or STDOUT, by default).

It's not clear to me that reusing a lame keyword for this is the
highest design goal.  Let's come up with a real interface, and then if
we want to reuse the (the presumably missing) dump keyword for some
method name or other, that's fine.  But we're currently designing it
from the wrong end.

Larry



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