I add my voice to this: the should be a way to inline functions and method calls.

Granted you can use the pre-processor (perl -P) to inline functions but this does not work for method calls. This is really bad when designing OO Perl, where I find myself using straight hash access ($o->{field}) instead of accessors ($o->field) for some often-called methods (or writing painfull and risky kludges), which makes maintenance much harder

I am actually very surprised this is not even a Perl 6 RFC, I would think that this is a simple (I would think it is quite easy to implement) way to enhance speed or maintainability of OO Perl programs.

In reply to Inlining functions by mirod
in thread When do you function? by zdog

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