At 10:06 2011-01-14, Bart Schaefer wrote:
The point, however, is that unlike (say) perl, the entire file is not
compiled before interpretation begins.
Another way of putting this for the non-programmer types is that you
can have a glaring syntax failure somewhere in your procmailrc, but
so long as the execution never reaches that point, you'll never be
made aware of it. In a compiled environment, the program isn't
executed until the language syntax validates (you can still have
buffer overruns, etc, but those are runtime failures, not language syntax).
The parse-as-you-go nature of procmail is in many ways a stumbling
block, but at the same time, it also allows people to create
includerc's on the fly.
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