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I wouldn't be making it third party code -- this would just be another builtin magic.

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Re: Re: Beware the XS (was Re: Don't have a COW? Get one!)
by chip (Curate) on Dec 01, 2001 at 08:10 UTC
    I got that. My point is that the magic you're describing could easily break compatibility with third-party XS code.

        -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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      Ohhhhh. You meant it the other way. Well, this would be experimental in the 5.9 track, I'd guess, and would be fine-tuned for Perl 6.

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