in reply to Reaped: Re: Diary of a Zydeco experiment
in thread Diary of a Zydeco experiment - E01 - Introduction

Of course Perl has a compile time. That's when the source gets translated to the op tree. Every BEGIN block and use statement happen at compile time, as does the declaration part of my.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]