I hear what you are saying, especially regarding naming. It makes sense that the p5p would want to keep that to themselves.

Personally, I have always thought of pragmas as being "hints" for the compiler, in its simplest definition. (At least that is what pragmas are in Ada95, which is where i first learned about them.) But being that Perl has such a richer interface to its compiler, I suppose I had extended that definition to also include anything that messes around with symbol tables during any of the compiliation phases. Maybe my definition is too broad, as these things would be better thought of as macros/pre-processors rather than pragmas.

-stvn

In reply to Re: Re: RFC : Pragma vs. Module by stvn
in thread RFC : Pragma vs. Module by stvn

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