On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>On Wed 13 Feb 2002 18:35, Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>> >On Wed 13 Feb 2002 02:02, Jonathan Leffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> -Note that most people are still using Kernighan & Ritchie syntax here.
>> >> -I personally don't like this and especially in this documentation it
>> >> -cannot be of harm, so let's use ANSI. Finally Tim Bunce has announced
>> >> -interest in moving the DBI sources to ANSI as well.
>> >> +Since Perl 5.6 requires support for function prototypes (ANSI or ISO or
>> >> +Standard C), you should write your code using function prototypes too.
>> >
>> >Perl requires ANSI-C (as of ***long*** before 5.6)
>>
>> You're right; Perl 5.005 requires ANSI C. [...]
>>
>> >ANSI-C supports prototypes
>> >We DBD authors /should/ use prototypes
>> >
>> >I couldn't be more straight.
>>
>> So, apart from noting that DBI 1.21 no longer supports Perl 5.004, and
>> changing the reference from 5.6 to 5.005, do you want me to add italics
>> to I<should>? Or drop the prevarication about ANSI vs ISO C? Or is it
>> basically OK as it stands?
>
>Choose your own wording, but what I mean is:
>
>Since Perl 5.6 requires ANSI C (supporting function prototypes), you
>I<should> write your code using function prototypes too.
I've edited the paragraph to read:
DBI 1.21 no longer supports Perl 5.004. The source code for
Perl 5.005 and later uses function prototypes, so users must
have an ANSI C compiler to build Perl. Therefore, you I<should>
should write your DBD code using function prototypes too.
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