On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> This one-liner is a complete perl extension:
>
> perl -e 'print add(2,2);use Inline C=>"int add(int x,int y){return
> x+y;}"'
I haven't written any XS myself, but I was under the impression that one
problem with it is that what you write an extension in (XS) isn't the same as
the language that you're debugging (C). (If this isn't true, then just
ignore this message...) If I were to ever write a Perl extension, I'd like
the code I write to be the same as the code I'm going to debug.
But if Perl6 is changed so that you can write extensions in plain old C
(without using something like Inline), it seems certain that there'd be some
XS compatability tool, so as to not break all the current XS code out there.
So then we could have three ways of writing an extension: straight C, XS, and
Inline. Hmmm.... There's More Than One Way To Do It? ;-)
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