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Re: making pragmas?
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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
November 19, 1999 21:41
Subject:
Re: making pragmas?
Message ID:
199911200541.AAA24901@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
Tom Christiansen writes:
>
> >I guess I see what you're saying. I guess my main request is to be able
> >to create a module which can be used not unlike strict.pm. I've written a
> >module that allows pre-5.6 versions of Perl (perhaps not all, though) to
> >create warning handlers easily, kind of like the new 5.6 pragma for
> >lexical warnings.
>
> Hm... Lexical effects. Are you asking for a bit of the real estate
> in the hints variables?
No need for this. Hint variables have an infinite width now. What is
important is how a module is going to *use* these hints. Here my
macro=user-defined-ops patch would come in handy. ;-)
Ilya
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