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>>>>> "NC" == Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> writes: NC> Presumably there are internal functions that aren't part of the NC> public API, but because they are used in more than 1 source file NC> do need external linkage. Or were your "linkers are dead-stupid" NC> words meaning that we can't tell linkers to partially link NC> libperl.a and then declare a whole bunch of symbols that now can't NC> be used for any purpose external to libperl.a i will presume for dan and say yes. we can't control what some linkers will actually expose to the external world and so collisions could occur. so internally all stuff has to be prefixed in case it ever gets exposed. the macros are just used internally to save using the prefixes all the time on what should be private to perl symbols. uri -- Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com SYStems ARCHitecture and Stem Development ------ http://www.stemsystems.com Learn Advanced Object Oriented Perl from Damian Conway - Boston, July 10-11 Class and Registration info: http://www.sysarch.com/perl/OOP_class.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next