More PAD APIs

If we are making padlists their own type, and no longer AVs, it makes
sense to add APIs for pads, too, so that CPAN code that needs to
change now will only have to change once if we ever stop pads them-
selves from being AVs.

There is no reason pad names have to be SVs, so I am adding sep-
arate APIs for pad names, too.  The AV containing pad names is
now officially a PADNAMELIST, which is accessed, not via
*PADLIST_ARRAY(padlist), but via PADLIST_NAMES(padlist).

Future optimisations may even merge the padlist with its name list so
I have also added macros to access the parts of the name list directly
from the padlist.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/perl.h b/perl.h
index 1154c40ca8..36eec0d03d 100644
--- a/perl.h
+++ b/perl.h
@@ -2442,10 +2442,12 @@ typedef struct ptr_tbl_ent PTR_TBL_ENT_t;
 typedef struct ptr_tbl PTR_TBL_t;
 typedef struct clone_params CLONE_PARAMS;
 
-/* a pad is currently just an AV; but that might change,
+/* a pad or name pad is currently just an AV; but that might change,
  * so hide the type.  */
 typedef struct padlist PADLIST;
 typedef AV PAD;
+typedef AV PADNAMELIST;
+typedef SV PADNAME;
 
 #include "handy.h"