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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. :) > 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. We went through a similar phase when all exported Perl symbols got a prefix like "PL_", "perl_" or "Perl_" to avoid namespace pollution with other libraries. This too wasn't source level compatible for XS code, so an escape hatch was needed for CPAN code that wasn't yet updated: perl Makefile.PL POLLUTE=1 would still make the old symbols available. I think something similar would be necessary (for MakerMaker *and* Module::Build). I somewhat doubt that it is really worth it though; just file "enhancement requests", ideally with a patch, against any XS module that is important to you and hope that eventually the idea will spread by cut&paste programming. :) Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next