I know this is a long shot, but is it possible to create another interpreter instance within an already running perl script? I'm guesssing you could do this by writing some C code (be it XS or Inline) to interface with a PerlInterpreter instance, but I haven't got that far yet ;-)
    The reason I ask is that I'm writing/about to write a not entirely useful module (for my own educational purposes mainly) which would extract subs from a perl source (probably files at this point) and import them into the current package (see. *not* packages + use). I figured parsing would be out of the question, so I thought I'd just walk the optree using the B module turning on the minus_c() switch to stop the running of the perl program. But that then stops the running of the current program to, thus leading me to ponderance of creating a new interpreter instance.
    I'm not sure if this is possible (or even within the realms of sanity), so any help/advice/suggestions would be very much appreciated!

broquaint

In reply to Can you create another perl interpreter within the current script? by broquaint

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