Steve Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >> >>Most of the PerlIO_Xxxx() are handled as a group in makedef.pl >> >> >Which group -- the group in @layer_syms, or the group in __DATA__?
layer_syms is the one I meant. __DATA__ is a hacking region I wish I had never invented. (My defence your honour was that only editor I had at the time was NT4.0's notepad and wholesale changes scared me.) > >i.e. is my "possible PATCH" >(http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-07/msg01096.html) >correct or not? (Vadim Konovalov believes it is correct -- >http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-07/msg01101.html). > >If it is correct then will it be applied in time for perl-5.8.1 as >Nicholas Clark suggested? > >Steve
