[sf-perl] passing array and hash references
Rich Morin
rdm at cfcl.com
Thu Sep 28 17:49:17 PDT 2006
At 5:38 PM -0700 9/28/06, Richard Karpinski wrote:
> I have a transformational attribute grammar compiler
> which could do that in a page of code or less. ...
Yep, and it could probably be coded up in a page of Perl.
Problem is, introducing changes (whether manually or via
programs) always carries some risk. How sure am I that:
* the new syntax will be functionally equivalent
in all possible cases (including buggy code that
currently works only by happenstance :-)
* the program won't foul up the editing process,
putting arrows in places where they don't belong
* "use script" will catch anything that's worng
If I'm not _entirely_ sure of these, the conservative
approach is to do minimal changes.
-r
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