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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
June 23, 2002 13:54
Subject:
Re: Perl5 humor
Message ID:
20020623215002.O87029@dansat.data-plan.com
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:59:33PM -0400, David J. Goehrig wrote:
> 
> qw/ who is praying for parrot to support XS code, 
>   	cause he doesn't want to rewrite
>   	SDL_perl's 11,000 lines /;

I'm sure that's not going to happen.

Much more likely is some kind of wrapper that manages a simple
perl5-like run-time environment (stacks, marks, gimme, symboltable
etc) plus source-code compatibility support (macros, functions etc)
that's just sufficient to keep old XS code happy.

If someone wants to champion that work I'll certainly contribute.

Tim [who doesn't want to rewrite the DBI's ~4000 lines or tell the
many DBD authors that they have to rewrite their drivers].

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