In which Oracle version is that possibile?

Question

I've tried to create these procedure that I've found.
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE genlookup (tab IN VARCHAR2, col IN VARCHAR2)
IS
BEGIN
pl ('CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ' || l_ltab || '_row_for (');
pl (' ' || l_lcol || '_in IN ' || l_ltab || '.' || l_lcol || '%TYPE)');
pl ('/');
END;
but I get a compilation error:
PLS-00201: identifier 'PL' must be declared
In which version is the PL istruction available?
I've got Oracle 8i.
My target is to write a procedure that having in Input N tables is able to autogenerate coding of a "select from where" putting in join the N tables by using ALL_DEPENDENCIES table so as to create queries automatically.
The site where I've found the above create procedure, let see that by giving after comlipation "exec genlookup" you get the CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION well formed, but as in my case 'pl' istrucion doesn't work, should I create one row of code a time and put it in a varrray and make dbms_out.put_line reporting the whole select or you have any smart way to do it?
Thanks!

Answer 1

PL (Feuerstein) en P (Kyte) procedures are usually wrappers around dbms_output, in order to save you from typing dbms_output.put_line constantly.
See:
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1288401763279 for an example of P. Just copy ity and call it PL instead of P