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Re: Challenge Problem: Merging Network Addressesby Dominus (Parson) |
on Oct 12, 2001 at 21:10 UTC ( [id://118530]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Says tachyon:
Of course if you patched the module with XS and your C code there would be :-)Not really. The C program is a complete program that solves this one specific problem. There's nowhere in the Net::CIDR interface to 'patch'; the module doesn't do what this program does, and this program doesn't implement any of the functions that Net::CIDR does. Even if I did put it in, there wouldn't be any benefit. At present, you could compile my program and then use: Then you could call it a "Perl solution", but it wouldn't really be one. Hacking my code into Net::CIDR wouldn't be a "Perl solution" either.
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