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[QUOTE="Uri Guttman, post: 4838151"]
S> I have written a code generator (in Perl) that produces Perl code and
S> would like to throw an assertion if the result contains invalid
S> syntax. Any idea if there is a way to perform a syntax check that does
S> not involve firing up a new process with "perl -c" or eval?

how were you planning on actually compiling this code? if you want it
inside this process you have to use eval STRING. note that any code
outside of subs will be executed. externally you can run perl -c and it
won't execute main level code but use commands will be run and those
modules can execute code. so there really is no way to just test for
perl syntax all by itself.

if you want to see how generated code is evaled and used, check out
Sort::Maker on cpan. it is a very rare problem that needs code
generation and it can be tricky doing it right. why do you think you
need code gen for your problem? i saw one case where someone generated
code for class accessors when closures would have been simpler and
better.

uri
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