Re: The big UTF8 changeover...

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Christian Borup <borup borup com> writes:

> > Most of the times, I've used it when we want a gtk function to be
> > potentially called with NULL as a gchar* argument. Then, using
> > "undef" (testing for PL_sv_undef in the c file) is far more
> > elegant/perlish than using 0, IMHO.
>
> So we let the typemap convert NULL to and from undef... Not a big deal,
> really.

Using "0" instead of "undef" from within perl is dirty, IMHO.
 
> Anyway, my point was really just that if every bit of code does this
> kind of thing itself. The codebase gets hard to manage.

No, we just need a couple of helper functions for those cases.
Not a big deal :).


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