RE: [FWP] Delayed semantical interpretation

["Rubinow, Larry" <Larry.Rubinow@westgroup.com>]

John Porter wrote:

> Rubinow, Larry wrote:
> > 
> > Um ... how about
> > 
> > 	do $file;
> > 
> > Technically not an eval ...
> 
> No, only *cosmetically* not an eval.  Technically,
> 
>         do 'stat.pl';
> 
>     is just like
> 
>         scalar eval `cat stat.pl`;

Really?  You didn't read the rest of the paragraph in perlfunc.  The long
part after the word "except".  :)

Randal wrote:

>"require" is a fancy "do" which is a fancy "eval".

Sigh.  At this rate, you're going to be telling me that

	%perl <filename>

is just a fancy "eval."  If the original question meant to exclude anything
that would involve invoking the tokenizer at runtime, then Peter really
should have said so.  He simply said, "eval doesn't count".

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