On 26/02/02 17:20 +0000, Mark Fowler wrote: > P.S. Any news when the next version of Inline will be out? If this is > a while off, any chance of a sub release with minor updates (such as > changing the aboved mentioned behavior) before then?
Hi Mark and all, Long time no ingy. I was commenting to Rocco (POE.pm) today that I haven't released Inline since the conference. The good news is that it doesn't seem to have caused too much grief. Things must be pretty stable. But as Jarkko always quotes, stability implies dead. That would be the bad news. I guess Open Source Development requires excitement on the part of the author. I've been much more excited about YAML these days. I spend a lot of energy on it. But I did get an exciting idea about Inline in the shower today. I figure that if I could replace the Inline::C grammar with a couple of regexes I could greatly speed up the latency of Inline compiles. (This guess is based on the benchmarks by Nadim from late last year.) Parse::RecDescent is overkill for most parsing. I'll accomplish this by providing the plugin-a-parser hook that Neil and I talked about previously. I think that would be a nice simple basis for 0.44. I'll also be sure and add the runtime hooks that all the non-compile ILSM authors seem to be craving. FWIW, I 'd really like to see the Inline::SQL and Inline::HTML modules happen. They seem like fine ideas to me. Patrick is right when he says that the point of Inline is to just make it easy and clean to mix other syntaxes into Perl. The Inline::SQL idea crossed my mind a long time ago. Maybe someone wants to do Inline::LaTeX as a pod replacement :) I'll try to get something in pre-release soon. Peace, Ingy
