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On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote: > I'll just say that "I disagree". I don't think you should EVER have > to recompile your perl binary to get something a program author > thought would be available in THEIR perl binary. I strongly disagree as well. Maybe (*maybe*) particular backends will have well-defined optional pieces missing (like, say, dynaloading, or the lexer), but that's as far as I'd like to go. I have no problem with (and would very much like to design in from the start) the potential to *change* or overload the way keywords work via modules, but that's a very different thing. Dan