On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Sam Xie wrote:
> Hi! There,
> I am learning to write a perl module. I saw someone's AFS.pm module,
> in which, he wrote a AFS.xs file in C. I don'e know what .xs extension
> means and how to write it? If someone knows it, it will be gratefull to
> help me to understand it!
> Thanks!
> Sam
>
see:
perldoc perlxs
or
http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlxs.html
XS is a language used to create an extension interface
between Perl and some C library which one wishes to use
with Perl.
