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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: can we ever compile perl?
Message-ID: <15136:Dec1323:01:3490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 23:01:34 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.064530.22356@cs.ubc.ca> pphillip@cs.ubc.ca (Peter Phillips) writes:
> For some perl scripts, eval is indispensible.  The debugger wouldn't
> work without it.

I imagine that the debugger would remain one of the advantages of the
interpreted language.

> Perhaps the greatest and wisest perl hackers should
> get together, examine their scripts which use eval, and decide
> what reasonable extensions to perl would eliminate 90% of the
> use for eval.

This is a good idea for any language.

---Dan