I'm thinking of reworking perlxstut.pod and (to a lesser extent)
perlxs.pod.
Does anyone else have any designs or other ownership claims on these files
that might clash with what I'm doing?
This has been triggered because I've just been reading these files to gain
a good understanding of XS (especially in terms of what promises we've
made) before I think about how to make XS work better (sometimes) under
PERL_RC_STACK.
While reading them, I've found many times that I had no idea what point
the author was actually trying to make, and had to go and experiment or
look at the source code to understand. It's also very dated - for example,
"In versions of 5.002 prior to version 5.002b1h". Ho hum.
--
"I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis,
it parts for the time with reality".
-- Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22nd Jan 1941.
perlxs.pod.
Does anyone else have any designs or other ownership claims on these files
that might clash with what I'm doing?
This has been triggered because I've just been reading these files to gain
a good understanding of XS (especially in terms of what promises we've
made) before I think about how to make XS work better (sometimes) under
PERL_RC_STACK.
While reading them, I've found many times that I had no idea what point
the author was actually trying to make, and had to go and experiment or
look at the source code to understand. It's also very dated - for example,
"In versions of 5.002 prior to version 5.002b1h". Ho hum.
--
"I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis,
it parts for the time with reality".
-- Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22nd Jan 1941.