At 06:23 PM 8/1/00 -0400, John Tobey wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 09:43 PM 8/1/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > >Nor am I sure that the XS API is not one of the things I would not
> > >have near top of the list for "internals cleanup":
> > >
> > >PUSHMARK;
> > >XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSVpv('DeepThought'));
> > >XPUSHs(sv_2mortal(newSViv(42));
> > >PUTBACK;
> > >count = perl_call_method("Consider",G_EVAL);
> > >SPAGAIN;
> > >if (count >= 1) {
> > > answer = SvIV(POPs));
> > >}
> > >
> > >You _want_ to keep that???
> >
> > I want to print it out, take it out to the parking lot, drive a stake
> > through it, light it on fire, bury the ashes print side down into a silver
> > box inside an iron box under a crossroad sprinkled with garlic powder.
> Then
> > I want to do something drastic to it...
>
>I nominate Dan to rewrite DBI.xs...
I'll leave that to Tim, since he knows what he's doing with it far more
than I do.
I fully expect that Tim'll let me know about the things with the current
implementation that are really busted and let me know in no uncertain terms
what's wrong with the replacement...
Dan
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