Re: Perl embedding: trial balloon

John> I don't know any of the details of Mule, text properties, John> intervals, etc., but Perl is quite flexible. Text properties, intervals, etc are not part of XEmacs, which uses extents as the implementation for these things. But Perl's flexibility will be able to handle that. No problem. But using "flexibility" and "Mule" in the same sentence scares me. Mule is not flexible; we are not yet at a stage where we can have efficiency in multi-lingual code without extreme discipline. "Discipline" is not a word I associate with Perl[1], and still less with Perl programmers. That said, it's probably possible to use Perl as a scripting language as long as Emchars and bufbytes are carefully kept opaque to the Perl interpreter. Which will, of course drive Perl programmers up the Wall. And further increase opposition to Mule, I suspect. Oh, and don't disable that Ebola-detection code yet. A Perl interpreter will introduce a whole new meaning to the word. John> uh-oh! You read my mind... ;-) This is a MUCH better idea. Please consider using the external widget interface instead. Footnotes: [1] Please read the Perl man page; that's my source for the statement. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."