Re: The external interface for the parser piece

[Tom Hughes]

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        Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 10:42 AM 11/29/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>
> >FILE * is not a good idea. PerlIO * is fine.
> 
> The problem with that is we're potentially getting the filehandle from
> something that isn't perl. Or so my thinking went at the time. Right
> now I'm thinkng that I need to rethink things.

That shouldn't matter so long as there's a simple way to create
a PerlIO * from a FILE * or whatever.

That's probably something that needs to be specific to different
language bindings - if you're embedding perl in C++ you probably
have an iostream, and if you're embedding in Java you'll have a
Java stream object. In each case you'll want an easy way to create
a PerlIO object from that.

Tom

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