in reply to Re^2: Which phase am I in?
in thread Which phase am I in?

That's the problem with any code that fmucks with the Symbol table!

Of course, if you call it "mucking with the symbol table", then you can look down your nose at it, with assurdness that "you shoudln't be doing that".

If you called "Introspection", or "dynamic programming", then (at least in some languages), you could laud it it as a "useful, valueable, even desirable feature of the language".

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