Greetings, monks.

While playing with Inline::C, I whipped up this little bit of code. I thought 'hmm, that would make a good Inline::C demo for someone who's never used the module before.'

I know it's not much more than Inline::C-Cookbook, but in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, ...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Inline 'C';

explain($_) for qw( foo bar bat baz qux );

__DATA__
__C__

/* don't need to include std C headers... perl.h header (included by 
   default with Inline) includes them */
 
/* define this first so explain() can see it */
char *inflect(int num)
{
    return  num == 1 ? "st" :
            num == 2 ? "nd" :
            num == 3 ? "rd" : 
                       "th";
}                                          
     
void explain(char *var)
{
    static int i = 1;
    printf("%s is the %d%s meta-syntactic variable.\n", 
        var, i, inflect(i) );
    ++i;
}

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In reply to Inline::C demonstration for C programmers by missingthepoint

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