Yeah, I understand what you mean, but, to me, creating the parse tree is a form of compilation. The difference between compiled languages and interpreted languages was meaningful 20 or 25 years ago, but that distinction is very much blurred nowadays.

Contrary to some other languages (e.g. shell, TCL, awk, makefile), Perl has clearly a compile phase and a run time phase. Whether the compile phase produces an op tree or an executable file has become to a large extent irrelevant in my view. But, yes, it's not really a compilation in the sense of what you do with a C program, you don't produce a binary executable program.

In reply to Re^3: Pre-compiled Perl? by Laurent_R
in thread Pre-compiled Perl? by bbs2web

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