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 <nik@tiuk.ti.com>]

Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com> writes:
>
>FWIW, I don't really like READY because of the above.  And probably because
>it only makes sense when read as a verb (at least in my head).

But these are sugar on subs - subs are normaly verbs in my head 
so that is exactly why I thing READY is better than DONE.

>
>I like DONE (as in "done with compilation"), which hasn't been proposed
>yet, and which conveys the meaning that these things are a finishing point
>for compilation, not a starting point for execution (which is what INIT is).
>
>    BEGIN
>    DONE
>    INIT
>    END
>
>So, how about it?
>
>
>Sarathy
>gsar@ActiveState.com
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Nick Ing-Simmons

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