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Postings from February 2003
According to Mark-Jason Dominus:
> Perhaps the best way to address this would be to extend the peephole
> optimizer to optimize ${"COMPILE_TIME_CONSTANT"} to
> $COMPILE_TIME_CONSTANT.
That would defeat a coder's deliberate choice to delay symbol table
lookup until runtime, which can be a vitally important thing to do
when manupulating packages, especially for aliasing purposes.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com>
"It furthers one to have somewhere to go."
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