I would like to write: ...

No you wouldn't :)

The beauty of mirroring the C++ api is you're mirroring the C++ api -- its like the same API, same names, same usage (basically)

If you want to change it, don't make it the same , same level of wordiness, same names, but with slightly different semantics, make it easy to use, like 

yippy( sub { my($seq ) = @_; warn $seq; } );
sub yippy {
    my( $do_something ) = @_;
    my $reader = Compress::DSRC::Archive->new;
    my $seq = Compress::DSRC::FastqRecord->new;
    while ($reader->next_seq($seq)) {
        $do_something( $seq );
    }
}

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I have a lot to learn about XS ...

:) Avoid XS as much as possible, unless you want to learn a lot about XS instead of just getting on with whatever task you have to complete :)

In reply to Re: "Perlifying" an XSpp method by Anonymous Monk
in thread "Perlifying" an XSpp method by jdv

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