RE: the C JIT

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From:

Myers, Dirk

Date:

September 6, 2000 13:38

Subject:

RE: the C JIT

Message ID:

78445BA01DCED21197B400A0C9EA5F7E01E030BF@exeug3

	> >         s/x/5/; # this is still going to replace
	> >                 # all the eckses in $_ with fives.

	> Why? This is an arbitrary decision if you've declared variables to
be
	> barewords.

I think it's a sane decision -- IMHO barewords shouldn't be allowed to
interpolate.  Of course, this means that to use the value of a bareword
variable in a regex, you'd have to do something like:

	int x = 3 ;

	...  # Do stuff with x, or not.

	my int $y = x ;

	s/$y/5/ ;

Which seems like a roundabout way to do it.

I still find this whole idea confusing, though.  Just out of curiosity,
though, would:

	#include a way for users to bail out gracefully

be a syntax error?  And how about:

	int length = 256 ;

and, if that's legal, what does:

	print "I wonder what this is : " . length  ;

do?

Dirk

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