Newsgroup: comp.lang.perl

>From article <wmeahan.15.2CEA381A@ef0424.efhd.ford.com>, by wmeahan@ef0424.efhd.ford.com (Bill Meahan):
> Which brings up the question: has anyone already put perl functions
> (e.g. associative arrays, reverse, split, etc., etc., etc.)
> (Perl 4, Perl 5 or any version) into a Windows DLL?  
I did the reverse.  I experimented with allowing Perl to call DLL
functions.  I did that on Perl 4 and succeeded in writing an event loop
in Perl (I threw all Windows API functions in as usubs).  The results
were not very promissing (i.e. programming Windows in Perl was not a
lot easier than C), so I paused the project waiting for Perl 5.

> Anybody planning to?  (I'm not speaking of var.C which passed through
> the net a year or so ago.)
I plan to try the previous approach with Perl 5.  Since 5 is supposed
to run as a library I could try to implement it as a DLL at the same
time.

If/when I have something running I will announce it to the net, please
do not mail me asking for it.

Diomidis
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