Following up on last month's talk, I've just now added An Illustration of Perl Objects with C APIs http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/inline/illustration/
with a slightly larger example of the approach. [...] a toy PPM-format image class is created and then extended (ToyPPM.pm and ExtendedToyPPM.pm). This child class runs just as fast as if it were part of a big C-language extension library, instead of being small and independent, depending only on ToyPPM.pm having provided a C API, and on Inline::C, to make use of it. Comments encouraged. By yet another New York native (grew up in mid-town Manhattan). I miss the density of "oh, look where we are, let's go over and see that" potential. But I can't quite recapture the mindset which made biking around, bouncing off of cabs, seem completely reasonable... And the Burren sounds good. To another person just down the street. Umm... Guinness beef stew for lunch... Mitchell
