[perl #45857] [IMCC][RFC] #line vs .line

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 03:10:47AM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> Just a reminder that the central issue for PCT and other HLL's
>> is that the current #line, setline, setfile, etc. instructions
>> are currently intimately tied to lines of PIR source (RT #43269),
>> and they probably shouldn't be.
>
> Instead, I expect PCT will emit .annotate. This allows you to emit  
> whatever annotations you wish. 
> [...]
> And yes, I need to get this all into the PIR docs, though the storage  
> scheme for all of this is in the bytecode PDD already. But it should  
> give us plenty of flexibility.
>
> Sound good?

Sounds fantastic!  I can hardly wait!

Pm