Re: The external interface for the parser piece

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 07:03 PM 11/28/00 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>           Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > The third parameter is the flags parameter, and it's optional. If omitted
>> > or set to PERL_CHAR_SOURCE, the second parameter is treated as a standard
>> > null-terminated string. If set to PERL_COUNTED_SOURCE, the second parameter
>> > is treated as if it points to a stream of bytes, where the first four are
>> > the length of the source to be read followed by the source. If set to
>> > PERL_FILE_SOURCE it's assumed to be a FILE *, while if set to

FILE * is not a good idea. PerlIO * is fine.

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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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