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

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