Re: The external interface for the parser piece

[Damien Neil]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>    int perl6_parse(PerlInterp *interp,
>                    void *source,
>                    int flags,
>                    void *extra_pointer);

Count me in with the people who prefer:

   int perl6_parse(PerlInterp *interp, PerlIO *io);

I understand the desire to reduce the number of API bits the external
user needs to know about, but I think that the non-PerlIO API will
lead to more complexity than it removes.

Assuming the non-PerlIO interface is used, however, I believe there
is a problem with the PERL_GENERATED_SOURCE option.  ANSI/ISO C does
not guarantee that a function pointer may be stored in a void*.

I would suggest that Perl's external APIs, at the very least, should
conform to standard C.

                    - Damien