Re: [FWP] Delayed semantical interpretation

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 02:15 PM 9/23/99 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>It's not.  It's syntax dependent.  Clearly, you're retyping the code,
>rather than copying and pasting, because if you were copying it, those
>would be curly braces and not parentheses:

Ack!  They look very close on my display.  Sorry, John.  *Light dawns*  Now 
I see what you meant.  That's pretty good, in that divining the behavior 
requires you to look what might be a long way away; but it's still 
determined at compile time.  You can't change the prototype of a subroutine 
at run-time (well, I can't; I just tried).




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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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