At 12:25 PM 3/6/00 +0000, BAZLEY, Sebastian wrote:
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> > Sent: 03 March 2000 19:16
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> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Hurrah
> >
> >
>
>[snips]
>
> > Here was the tweak I just made tp vmsperl_pre56_3:
> >
> > --- vms/subconfigure.com;1 Fri Mar 3 02:25:42 2000
> > +++ vms/subconfigure.com Fri Mar 3 10:43:14 2000
>
>[snip]
>
> > $ type = "''perl_i64type'"
>
>I'm a little concerned by the use of the symbol TYPE, which obscures the DCL
>command of the same name, possibly causing problems later. [I am going by
>the quoted snippet only, so I may have missed something.]
>
>Might I suggest that all local symbols contain at least one underscore,
>which is unlikely to occur in an existing DCL command or symbol?
I was shooting for all the symbols that ultimately got written out to
config.h to have a perl_ prefix. configure.com and subconfigure.com are
reasonably cavalier with names otherwise, though they should all be using
local symbols only so as not to leave gook around when they finish.
I'll go look around and see about cleaning things up for 5.6.1.
Dan
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