Re^2: Intercepting compile time blocks like BEGIN {}

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> eval() isn't used. But something is. Does it really matter what that something is?

theoretically no, practically yes, because extending an eval mechanism shouldn't be difficult "something" OTOH could mean anything much more complicated.

Cheers Rolf

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Re^3: Intercepting compile time blocks like BEGIN {} by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 10, 2010 at 01:06 UTC
Quite the opposite. `eval` is an op. It's meant to be called from Perl land. This may subject it to limitations and make it a poor choice. Limiting yourself to a specific implementation (without knowing anything about it) is definitely not better.	[reply] [d/l]

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