On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Brian Ingerson wrote:
> On 26/09/02 18:55 -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
>> --- Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I wouldn't use comments if I were you, because they're awfully
>>> ugly and contain too many points of head-scratching failure.
>>> I'd prefer something more explicit:
>>>
>>> use Inline C
>>> __END__
>>> __C__
>>> TYPEMAP(foo *, ...typemap code here...)
>>>
>>> void bar(foo* my_foo) {
>>> }
>
> (Ken)
> Good idea. Would the macro perhaps generate nothing, and just be
> something for the Inline parser to grok?
Yeah - Inline could either strip it out entirely, or there could
be a real C macro that makes it a no-op. Something like that is
what I had in mind anyway. It's still not clear whether
something in the C or something in the Perl will generalize the
best.
> No matter what, I'm definitely interested in the cleaest and most
> scalable solution. I think I made that comment extra ugly on purpose!
Heh. =)
-Ken
