1.5: Generating Real Perl Code

• Generating code has it own set of problems
• Debugging is tricky
  • Generating clean syntax
  • Formatting generated code
  • Why? So you can read it and debug it!
• Tracking what is executing code vs code to be generated is tricky
  • When to escape or not
• Generating logic has to think in meta logic
  • It needs to know the primary logic goal
  • It needs to know how to generate code for that goal
  • It needs to support all the options for the generated code