On Oct 31, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:

> Implementing a C API will be conceptually more complicated, because we will
> have to make some decisions and leave some features out.  We can't support
> default values from C, for example.  

Perl’s gv_fullname function became gv_fullname3 and then gv_fullname4 when more 
params were added.  You could conceivably do the same for default parameters, 
but it might lead to API explosion, which, come to think of it, renders this a 
very bad idea.

> I suspect that we will still want to
> autogenerate an intermediate layer which performs some amount of type
> checking, but we will just have to see how things play out.
> 
> Marvin Humphrey
> 
> 

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