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

[Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>]

Damian Conway <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.

Thanks for voicing my opinion so elegantly. I too think READY 
is the best name so far.
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons

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References to:

Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au>

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