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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:32:51PM -0000, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> 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
How can delaying the symbol table lookup of ${"FOO"} until runtime
make any difference? A "FOO" is a "FOO" is a "FOO". (Unless you
going poking holes at the readonly constants of symbol tables using
XS, but then you are a depraved person anyway :-)
> when manupulating packages, especially for aliasing purposes.
I think you qualify as "one of the more twisted minds" Rafael
called for, so the stage is yours...
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