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| author | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2009-10-06 14:13:31 -0400 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2009-10-06 14:13:31 -0400 |
| commit | e851c10581f8b45e99ba164a13a07381402b7e64 (patch) | |
| tree | 6860623239e7f2b8ceb8b8ae3775854395c1bcf3 /pod/perltodo.pod | |
| parent | 5dcd9c27efd1a82beb36a2791a7929cc9e8cb55d (diff) | |
| download | perl-e851c10581f8b45e99ba164a13a07381402b7e64.tar.gz | |
Add perltodo: write an XS cookbook
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index a857e77fcc..b17ad9f5b0 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -569,6 +569,14 @@ These tasks would need C knowledge, and roughly the level of knowledge of the perl API that comes from writing modules that use XS to interface to C. +=head2 Write an XS cookbook + +Create pod/perlxscookbook.pod with short, task-focused 'recipes' in XS that +demonstrate common tasks and good practices. (Some of these might be +extracted from perlguts.) The target audience should be XS novices, who need +more examples than perlguts but something less overwhelming than perlapi. +Recipes should provide "one pretty good way to do it" instead of TIMTOWTDI. + =head2 Remove the use of SVs as temporaries in dump.c F<dump.c> contains debugging routines to dump out the contains of perl data |