For sure we were talking apples and oranges.

Initially I thought that you can not use *XS* feature in perl-5.6.1 that was appeared in perl-5.8.0.

Now I see that in perl-5.6.1 there is no way at all to prototype a subroutine that takes a reference to array or hash as its first argument. I checked sources and realized that.

In this case may be source filters could be kind of solution as a hack. But source filter not necessarily installed everywhere.

May be it's better to introduce three prototyped functions for each: share_a, share_s, share_h (for sharing array, scalar and hash respectively)?

Also I did some RTFSing (f=fine here), and now understand a little bit more on situation. Following code is a maximum that I reached on this matter, it finds a prototype for a subroutine: 

use B;

sub share(\[@%$]) {print qq/[@_]/}

%stash = B::svref_2object(\%{"::"})->ARRAY;
$c=B::svref_2object(\&share);
#... or this $c=B::svref_2object(\&share);
print 'prototype equals to '. $stash{share}->CV->PV,"\n";

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Courage, the Cowardly Dog

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Forks.pm dilemma by Courage
in thread Forks.pm dilemma by liz

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