Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:04 PM 3/4/2001 -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote:
>Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>whispered
>:
>| ISO/ANSI C reserves identifiers beginning with a _.  I recommend using
>| "perl_" and "perl__" if you want to distinguish internal-only functions
>| from public ones.
>
>I'd be worried that "_" and "__" are too hard to differentiate.  Perhaps it
>would be better to use "perl_" and "iperl_" or something of that nature.

The current scheme's not bad--Perl_ for functions and PL_ for data. We can 
add an extra Perl_I_ and PL_I_ for internal functions and data that we 
still want to export for some reason..

                                        Dan

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