On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 04:11 am, Alan Burlison wrote:
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.
We have defined APIs, you are not supposed to look inside any internal data structures but rather use Macros, and those macros will do the right thing.
The more adventurous XSUBs break every perl release anyway (PadWalker, B::Generate, Tk ..)
I plan to emulate the magic interface. The TIE interface is trivial to implement.
Arthur
