Okay, I may be slow, but I make mistakes. Why 3 & 4 below?
Having the bare names doesn't solve any of the linking/clobbering issues,
and why have #defines giving public names to routines you're not exporting?
This isn't to bypass the 'leading underscore' reservation, is it?
On Wednesday 11 April 2001 10:29, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> My inclination is the opposite. In fact, what I'd propose is:
>
> *) All exported perl functions and functionlike things have a Perl_ prefix
> *) All exported data and dataish thigns have a PL_ prefix
> *) All private routines have #defines to give them a _Perl_ prefix
> *) All private data have #defines to give them a _PL_ prefix
> *) Internal data and functions get referenced via the unqualified names
>
> That way the internals can use the utility function str_to_UTF(), while the
> world would see it (or, rather, not see it) as _Perl_str_to_UTF(). Less
> typing for private things, and more for the much smaller (and probably not
> used internally) set of public functions.
>
> Dan
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