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Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules

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From:
David Nicol
Date:
May 9, 2008 12:38
Subject:
Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules
Message ID:
934f64a20805091238nef9adc4jf615eed5e1205081@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Nicholas Clark
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>  The code can't know for sure what it's getting.

IIRC, one of the ideas kicked around when Ingy stunned the world with
Inline::C was that with the smaller set of standard macros, code
written with Inline rather than directly in XS would be more
forward-compatible; a trend would occur (magical thinking!) of
maintainers of XS modules rewriting using Inline instead.

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