in reply to XS and preserving magic

You grep the perl source and grab a magic type of your very own that doesn't get stomped on in the unpleasant ways that '~' magic does. But you can't have chr(185) because I'm already using that for Pixie::Info.

If you want to see how it's done, grab Pixie and take a look at Info.xs

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Re: Re: XS and preserving magic
by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jan 19, 2003 at 18:04 UTC
    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out. I ended up using '~' because in 5.8 it doesn't trample it so stole the sv_magicext() function and put it into the xs file and so far seems to work fine with 5.6.1

    -Lee

    "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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      We tried to use '~' within Pixie, but for a very good reason that I now can't remember, we ended up having to introduce our own magic type.
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        The thing that would concern me is that if the module is generally useful, that an implementation "collision" would occur. I can't imagine how hard it would be to track that bug down. Before this little project I would never ever consider that possibility. If you remember the reason, please do tell. Hopefully I can avoid it though.

        -Lee

        "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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