I add my voice to this: the should be a way to inline
functions and method calls.
Granted you can use the pre-processor (perl -P)
to inline functions but this does not work for method calls.
This is really bad when designing OO Perl, where I find
myself using straight hash access ($o->{field}) instead
of accessors ($o->field) for some often-called methods
(or writing painfull and risky kludges),
which makes maintenance much harder
I am actually very surprised this is not even a Perl 6
RFC, I would
think that this is a simple (I would think it is quite easy to
implement) way to enhance speed or maintainability of OO Perl programs.
