Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
[snip]
> Strictly speaking, there is no need to put Inline into the 5.7 tree,
> though, since whatever goes in there probably should stay there all
> the way till 5.8.0 (putting it in and taking it out before the 5.8.0
> is kind of wasted work from my perspective, and I live by Larry's
> Virtue #1...) You can still work with the VMS folks, for example,
> to make Inline more portable, there's no need for the Inline to be
> in the core for that.
Hmm. Seems to me you folks are picking the wrong target. Wasn't one of
the goals of Perl 6.0 to implement a simpler way than XS to integrate
Perl with other languages? If that was one of the 347 (sic?) RFDs that
Larry is reading, then I think THIS is the answer. It may have to be
modified based on whatever the new internals look like but maybe the
internals folks for 6.0 should be thinking in terms of using Inline:: as
the API for whatever they cook up.
My USD 0.02.
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