I'm sorry that you found this book "useless". I found the book to be
fabulous as well and would encourage Erland to pick up a copy of it.
STH
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 04:52, Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 01:34, John Peacock wrote:
> > If you want better docs, get the fabulous "Extending and Embedding Perl" by Tim
> > Jenness and Simon Cozens, for lots about XS in general and the Perl internals in
> > specific.
>
> Personally, and unfortunately, I found this book to be next to useless.
> YMMV but, due to my frustration at the lack of light this book gave me,
> again personally, I sat down and read *all* the perlpod documentation
> and found these to much more use. It isn't particularly obvious which
> bits of perlpod you need but I have nicely groffed and bound copies of:-
> perlxs, perlxstut, perlapi, perlguts, perlcall and perlembed permanently
> to hand and they are invaluable.
>
> I must say that a simple, alphabetical, list + description of perlapi
> would be useful. A kwic index might be even better.
>
> Dirk
