Re: Perl_foo() vs foo() etc

[John Siracusa]

On 4/11/01 10:55 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> It does fix the link issues, though. perl6.so won't ever have an
> unqualified function in it--they'll all have either a Perl_ or _Perl_
> prefix on them, and all global data will have a PL_ prefix on it.

Remind me again why it's PL_ and not PERL_?  It seems to me that PL_ has
*got* to be used somewhere in the wide world of code.  (Isn't it a country
code?)  Maybe I'm being too paranoid, but Perl has basically staked out the
letters "p e r l", whereas "PL" is probably still up for grabs.  The last
thing we need is some whizzy new product exploding into the "PL" moniker in
2003 and creating weird new embedding problems.  PERL_ also matches  up
nicely with _Perl_ and Perl_, of course.  What are two characters worth? ;)

-John