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On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:38:44AM -0500, Dan Sugalski 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. I liked Tom Huges' suggestion of 3 or so simple wrappers (which I've deleted now, oops) because it let PerlIO make the choice between doing something simple to open the named file, and something complicated but fast. (and I belive Nick's p5p perlio is suggesting that PerlIO could open a handle that sits atop the FILE *) But on the other hand I also liked Simon Cozen's argument that it should be easy to embed somewhere else, in which case why do we want to make the parser have a dependency on the IO library? Bah. Can't have them both at the same time. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next