>We adopt C base types, and C structure syntax.
THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
C type declarations are pretty universally despised. And why
do you want to get so unnaturally chummy with the machine? That
seems pretty hamstringly.
In Class::Struct there's already a more perlish way of doing
"struct"s.
Now, if all you want to do is make it easier to get at packed
binary C data structures, that's a different matter. I did
this for perl4 using c2ph. A more revised mechanism that makes more
perl5ish sense could be devised--in fact, I've made proposals
about that, back quite some time ago.
As Larry has said, "If you want to program in C, then program in
C. It's a nice language -- I use it now and then."
--tom
