On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:11:52PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Richard Clamp wrote:
>
> >>Interesting. And what happens about XSUB compatibility?
> >
> >A recent conversation with Arthur left me with the impression that as
> >long as the extensions restrict themselves to the apis documented in
> >perlapi and perlxs then they'll be catered for through emulation.
>
> APIs are unlikely to be sufficient on their own. What about the
> internal data structures, I can't see them being preserved. I suspect
> some of the more 'adventurous' XSUBs that fiddle with ties and magic
> will probably break.
Then I guess we'll have to find those bits and document them. :)
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