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>]

Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes:
>damian@conway.org writes:
>: 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.

So in that case the READY is a verb which does the READYing.
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons

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Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>

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