On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:21:19AM -0500, B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote: > Yes, precisely. So why didn't Inline make it into 5.7.3? It > disappoints me that such a great advance in Perl programming as Inline > isn't part of the core. It beats the devil out of XS programming! And > XS programming is mostly for C anyway, whereas Inline is all over the > map in language support: it plays nice with everybody. > > If nothing else, it makes for great Perl evangelism.
If I remember correctly, Jarkko wanted to assimilate it around the time of 5.7.2, but Ingy asked him not to. I don't know the reasons why Ingy preferred it to stay outside the core, and I can't remember if I knew and have now forgotten, or if I never knew. (Note that Jarkko was the first person to describe Jarkko as having Borg-like tendencies. He meant it as a joke, and so do I) Nicholas Clark
