Re: Are STOP and INIT good names? (was Re: [PATCH pod/perlmod.pod 5.005_63] Special Blocks For Less Than Gurus)

[Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>]

damian@conway.org writes:
: Sarathy wrote:
: 
:    > I'd agree that STOP is not exactly as enlightening as
:    > RUN_WHEN_COMPILATION_STOPS().  If you get any better ideas, let me know.
: 
: I think:
: 
: 	BEGIN	# Begin processing
: 	READY	# Ready to run (must have finished processing to be ready)
: 	INIT	# Initializing (must be running to initialize)
: 	END	# End of execution (and complements BEGIN)
: 
: is the best set yet proposed.
: 
: Unlike other suggestions, it has a sequence whose logic is explicable to
: non-gurus (therefore more likely to be correctly remembered by them).
: How one would remember that STOP (or DOZE) comes between BEGIN and INIT is
: beyond me.

That's fine too.  Though, of course, the point of the typical READY
block would be that it isn't really ready unless we do something else.

Larry

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Steve Fink <sfink@digital-integrity.com>
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
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Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au>

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