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At 11:00 AM 4/11/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>Okay, I *really* may have missed something....
>
>Do you mean this:
>
>/* Allow us to refer to _Perl_foo() as just foo() inside */
>#define _Perl_foo foo
>
>or this:
>
>/* We're foo(), other folks can call us _Perl_foo() */
>#define foo _Perl_foo
>
>The second is what I read from your list, although the first seems like more
>what you're talking about.
The second is the one I'm talking about.
> > > > *) All exported perl functions and functionlike things have a Perl_
> > > > prefix *) All exported data and dataish thigns have a PL_ prefix
> > > > *) All private routines have #defines to give them a _Perl_ prefix
> > > > *) All private data have #defines to give them a _PL_ prefix
> > > > *) Internal data and functions get referenced via the unqualified names
> > > >
> > > > That way the internals can use the utility function str_to_UTF(), while
> > > > the world would see it (or, rather, not see it) as _Perl_str_to_UTF().
> > > > Less typing for private things, and more for the much smaller (and
> > > > probably not used internally) set of public functions.
> >
>
>--
>Bryan C. Warnock
>bwarnock@capita.com
Dan
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