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From:
Tony Cook
Date:
January 16, 2012 01:46
Subject:
Re: typemap documentation
Message ID:
20120116094625.GA15008@mars.tony.develop-help.com
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:45:43AM +0100, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> would anybody oppose if I tried to get the existing documentation on
> the core typemaps updated and into a manpage like perlxstypemap or
> so (with the appropriate pointers from perlxs)? We have quite a bit
> of docs on many typemaps in XS-Typemap's Typemap.xs. The sole
> purpose of that module seems to test the typemaps. I don't believe
> XS::Typemap is installed at all and thus the docs aren't available
> to end-users easily.

I would love improved typemap documentation.

Not just the predefined types, but documentation of $var, $arg, $ntype
and any other variables set in XS rules.

Tony

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