Christopher J Bottaro wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 December 2002 04:38 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I think Perl actually made me a better C programmer, but it is sometimes > > frustrating going down to the level of C. Keep your hand in with XS > > programming :-) > > what is XS programming?
perldoc perlxs perldoc perlxstut > > Yes. And occassionally even if there isn't. Perl 5 uses reference > > counting, and so you have to make your own provisions for destroying > > circular data structures. > > oh oh, can you give an example? =) like a simple linked list setup (dunno > why you ever wanna do that in perl, but...for education purposes...) You can find the source for linked lists (and much more) in the book "Mastering Algorithms with Perl" from O'Reilly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/maperl/ John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
