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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Subject: Re: switching off symtabs via %_foo assignments?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.021945.2236@netlabs.com>
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- References: <18160@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:19:45 GMT
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- In article <18160@autodesk.COM> dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
- : I'm wondering if it's "safe" to swap "%_some_package" around.
-
- Well, I don't know about safety, but it's not gonna do what you want,
- since symbol table references are resolved at compile time. I.e. the
- only way to get around it is with eval, and then you might as well
- generate new package names.
-
- If you want threads, you're really going to have to wait until sometime
- after 5.0 comes out. 5.0 will have support for multiple interpreters
- in a process, but won't likely have support for multiple threads in the
- same interpreter, at least not in the first release. It wouldn't be too
- terrible difficult to add, but I just don't have that many round tuits.
-
- Larry
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