Quote #152
There's something to be said for returning the whole syntax tree.
More from Larry Wall
- You don't have to wait--you can have it in 5.004_54 or so. :-)
- It's not really a rule--it's more like a trend.
- Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right. :-)
- Double *sigh*. _04 is going onto thousands of CDs even as we speak, so to speak.
- (To the extent that anyone but a Prolog programmer can understand X totally. (And to the extent that a Prolog programmer can understand 'cu…
- The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'. :-)
- Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
- Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.