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On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Leon Timmermans wrote: > > New PerlIO API. Shouldn't this also be documented in perlapi? The docs > > in perliol.pod just say you can use it, but nothing says what its > > prototype etc. are > > It's an implementation of the Open method, so the prototype is known. > PerlIO in general is pretty much entirely absent from perlapi, and I > think that's far more urgent to document end-user functions (e.g. > PerlIO_open, PerlIO_read, etcâ¦) than vtable function implementations. > In fact I think it would be outright confusing to document it without > documenting the main interface. That's a fairly big project that's > somewhere on my todo list but unlikely to be done before 5.14. Aren't they all documented in perlapio.pod? Or did you mean something more exhaustive? And maybe perlapi.pod should get a link to perlapio.pod? Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next