in reply to Re^4: getting rid of special features
in thread getting rid of costly special features

"Wouldn't you love to have a pragma telling the compiler: No Sir, I don't need that magic here! ?

... or just run perl2js --opt assume_increment_is_numeric=1

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

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Re^6: getting rid of special features
by LanX (Saint) on Feb 19, 2013 at 10:37 UTC
    For the records I didn't mean any specific "perl2js" or "python2js" implementation.

    > ... or just run perl2js --opt assume_increment_is_numeric=1

    ATM his is the only mode that perlito knows!

    But if you need to be sure that the Perl¹ side does the same thing, you will end up in overloading ++, hence considerably slowing down the Perl side.

    Cheers Rolf

    ¹) is there any name for the standard interpreter/compiler? "CPerl" maybe? ;)

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