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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: wishlist: current line number variable
Message-ID: <15690@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 20 Jul 90 09:05:23 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <8812@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>Oh, now that I think of it, I guess you could always use -P and get the
>C preprocessor to translate __LINE__ and __FILE__ for you.  But I'll
>add __LINE__ and __FILE__ to the Perl tokener.  

This is definitely a nice idea, and the right way to do it too.  A lot
of us could use this feature.

While you're at it, could you make __STDPERL__ evaluate to constant 1?  :-)

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