On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:17:28AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > After banging my head against a wall for a few hours with Perl 5's XS, I > have an idea for how Parrot can do it better.
I'm not sure about Parrot, but for Perl 6 Larry has specifically said that he intends to extend to Perl "sub" declarations to enable them to contain all the information required to link to external libraries. But that might have to wait for Apocalypse 21. Also, on a tangent, I hope someone is pondering, or planning to ponder, the practicallity of some kind of perl5 XS to perl6 interface that would enable perl5 extensions to be ported to perl6 with less effort than a complete rewrite. It needn't be clean, elegant, or fast, but I think there's too much good work on CPAN to ignore. Tim.
