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On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 5:50 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > *pluggable keyword API* — Calling this experimental is also weird. > > We have had a number of PSC (and other) conversations about changing > > how pluggable keywords work so that their implementation could be > > less exposed, and certain hooks could be made experimental so they'd > > warn when being hooked into. *I would love to see an email about > > this from Nicholas or Paul.* #13199 > > <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13199> > > In summary: I'd love to basically say that PL_keyword_plugin and all > the associated machinery, including *all* of the lexer and parser API, > are no longer for public use, and they are simply the internal > mechanism used to make XS::Parse::Keyword work, and that > XS::Parse::Keyword will now be the "public" API used by XS authors to > provide extension keywords. > > Already I've rewritten all of mine on CPAN to use it, and honestly I'm > not really aware of any other "production-grade" syntax modules on CPAN > not written by me. There's a few bits and pieces out there, but to my > knowledge nothing large or with much following. > Off the top of my head, some decently used ones are: Function::Parameters, Switch::Plain (which is rather trivial), Kavorka (which uses the deprecated Parse::Keyword), Moops (which uses various problematic keyword modules), and less-used: Zydeco, Quote::Code, Dios -DanThread Previous | Thread Next