On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 06:32:11PM +0000, Ton Hospel wrote: > For the 5.8.6 version of the patch I made it croak on repeat counts > 1 > since that one doesn't chain the tempsym_t structures, and getting it > to do that would also need a patch to a visible struct in perl.h
I'm not intending to add new features to pack in 5.8.x until (at least) Larry has stated an opinion on what Perl 6 will do, as anything that gets released in a stable perl has to be supported pretty much in perpetuity. To my mind, internal implementation changes and bug fixes are welcome improvements to maint. Also, for features present in both blead and maint I'm generally merging things across from blead to maint, rather than applying patches in parallel. In this particular case, I'm wondering why the tempsym_t structure is even public in perl.h. Given that it only seems to be used in static functions inside pp_pack.c, I'm thinking that it's not part of the public API, and as such it's fair game to tweak. Nicholas Clark
