On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeeti...@gmx.de> wrote: > Probably not. But <http://grep.cpan.me/?q=newSVpv.*PL_na> does show > quite a few hits, only roughly half of which are mine. Since the bugs > this causes are hard to diagnose, I thought a public service > announcement is appropriate.
Hmm, maybe you should email the maintainers of those modules directly (or file bugs), if you have the time? perl-xs is kind of an obscure list, so it is unlikely they will actually see this thread. > I think I simply assumed that "na" stood for "not available". So I took > PL_na as a readability-improving alias for zero. I think in this case it means "not applicable", meaning "I don't care what the value is". Cheers, -Jan
