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Quoth jand@activestate.com ("Jan Dubois"):
> On Mon, 03 May 2010, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> > I agree that the Perl docs are big and not always well laid out, but is
> > perl*guts* the place to document something that an XS author should
> > certainly remember? OTOH, it's discussed to great lengths in perlguts,
> > so if we assume that an XS author has at least skimmed the document as
> > he should, he won't completely oblivious to it.
>
> I can't think of any excuse why an XS author should not have read perlguts.pod
> multiple times. :)
+1 :)
> > Also, is this a default that we might be able to change down the road?
>
> It is possible, but it will break XS extensions that have not
> prepared for this.
A general solution to this problem would be to put something like
#if PERL_WANT_VERSION > 5013000
# define PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT
#endif
in perl.h. This would still require action on the part of XS authors for
the practice to spread, but it would give us an easily-understood way to
change the C API without breaking old modules.
Ben
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