Hi Jenda,

Thanks for your reply! You're right about the amount of pre-existing low-magic Perl code, as we are now getting started with RPerl there is not much low-magic code already out there. The RPerl team will provide common shared libraries and algorithms, and we'll also work to de-magicify some important CPAN modules as well.

Perhaps the most important part of this concern is already clearly codified in The Low-Magic Perl Commandments. We are directed to populate CPAN with low-magic Perl code:

LMPC #10. Thou Shalt Use & Contribute To Low-Magic Pure-Perl CPAN Code

If you are passing magical things into RPerl code, then you're breaking the rules:

LMPC #11. Thou Shalt Not Use XS, High-Magic Perl, Or High-Magic CPAN Code, Except During Official Emergencies PBP 228 Conflict

So feel free to mix high-magic and low-magic code in the same program, just don't try to pass high-magic things into the low-magic parts of the program. RPerl will (at least) just throw away the magic or (at most) tell you that you are wrong, and you will be unhappy.

Does that answer your questions?

Thanks,
~ Will

In reply to Re^6: Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 9: RPerl.org & The Low-Magic Perl Commandments by Will_the_Chill
in thread Perl 5 Optimizing Compiler, Part 9: RPerl.org & The Low-Magic Perl Commandments by Will_the_Chill

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