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Postings from August 2000
>We adopt C base types, and C structure syntax. THE HORROR! THE HORROR! C type declarations are pretty universally despised. And why do you want to get so unnaturally chummy with the machine? That seems pretty hamstringly. In Class::Struct there's already a more perlish way of doing "struct"s. Now, if all you want to do is make it easier to get at packed binary C data structures, that's a different matter. I did this for perl4 using c2ph. A more revised mechanism that makes more perl5ish sense could be devised--in fact, I've made proposals about that, back quite some time ago. As Larry has said, "If you want to program in C, then program in C. It's a nice language -- I use it now and then." --tom