Re: Perl embedding: trial balloon

John Tobey <jtobey(a)channel1.com&gt; writes: How easy is to introduce new types in Perl (or should I say perl)? In standard Emacs you can get away without out it but in XEmacs you really read a character type or better a string type that can contain Mule strings... Note that you can crash XEmacs by polluting the buffer with illegally encoded multibyte characters. Recoding everything when calling perl seems a bit over done. Without access to strings and buffers it doesn't make much sense. I presume you already had to introduce perl types for markers and such? Do the perl reference counting and the elisp garbage collector know about each other? As for getting it into mainstream XEmacs, how general would it be? Would somebody be able to put in say a Python binding or even a clisp binding instead? Have you looked at the XEmacs loadable modules in 21.2.x? It would be nice for maintainability if one could make Perlemacs just a loadable module (after a providing some services like the type extensions in the core maybe). Jan