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Brent Dax wrote: > > 2. What does having a Parrot_ prefix signify, considering > > both the opcodes and the embed api use it? > > It signifies one of the following: > -This function is externally visible. > -This function belongs to Parrot at large, and not any particular > subsystem (e.g. Parrot_sprintf and friends). > -This function has an identical name to a C library function because > it emulates it for certain platforms (e.g. Parrot_dlopen (?)). > -This function is autogenerated, so we're going to be paranoid about > naming conflicts. Maybe I'm just being naive... but it seems to me that if there are four different meanings, there should be four different actual prefixes. -- John Douglas Porter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.comThread Previous | Thread Next