[Melbourne-pm] Q re perlxs

[Brendon Oliver]

On Tuesday 23 August 2005 09:40, Sisyphus wrote:

> Yeah - I wasn't sure that it was so simple, either - hence the
> minimal Inline::C test script.
> After posting, I took a look at the documentation for $! and %!
> 'perldoc perlvar'. The "approved" method for finding out which values
> are valid for $! on your perl, according to that documentation, is to
> look at the keys for %!. Take a look at that documentation if you're
> not familiar with it.

I will - I wasn't aware of that.  I think what was throwing me was 
looking at the perlguts manpage, where it talks about "Double-Typed 
SVs" - it uses $! as an example, so I was thinking it was more complex 
than necessary.

Appreciate your input.

Cheers,

- Brendon.

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