Re: conflict between passes

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) writes:

> Correct, because ePerl currently doesn't support nested Perl blocks.
> As you might expect this restriction is not because I just wanted
> ePerl to support it. It is because it is very difficult to do it in
> a really useful and backward-compatible manner. I'll start a
> discussion in a different posting because it bites us a lot of times
> and I really want to implement the nesting-support now. But we need
> to make sure we decided the correct approach which is 100%
> backward-compat, so existing scripts don't get broken.

How many people are using WML right now? How important the backward
compatibility? Could it be solved by "activating" the new mode only on
demand, so that people can still process old stuff, while can also
create new stuff.

Of course, I am biased, as I don't have much existing code, yet ...

Cheers,
Fritz

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