Weird Language Features

[Dave Cross]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:09:20 -0800, "Robert Hand"
<Robert_Hand at notspammehotmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> If you're wondering why I'm inventing these bizarre scenarios, it's
>> for a paper I'm writing for this year's Perl Conference.  Perl does
>> have these features (see the AUTOLOAD function and source filters) and
>> I'm interested in seeing how widespread they are in other languages.
>>
>Really?  Thats great!  If you can do it in perl, you can probably implement
>it in java.
>I'm not a perl expert.  Is the perl source code translation a function of
>perl or a separate app?
>if it's a separate app, handling ascii input, give me a link.

It's a separate library that gets to see the source code before it's
compiled. For an (admittedly extreme) example of what you can do see:

<http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html>

Which discusses a filter allowing you to write Perl programs in Latin!

Cheers,

Dave...

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