Chapter 8

References

To work comfortably in the Perl API, you'll need to keep the documentation that 

comes with Perl close at hand. Nearly every function and macro in the Perl API is 

documented in the perlapi perldoc. The IO functions are described in depth in 

perlapio. Finally, the Perl calling conventions are detailed in perlcall.

Although this chapter has covered a great deal of material, you still have miles 

to go if you wish to become a true Perl internals guru. Continue your education by 

reading the perlguts manual. Also of interest is Simon Cozen's excellent Perl 

internals tutorial available at http://www.netthink.co.uk.

Summary

This chapter has introduced you to the Perl C API. With this knowledge in hand, 

proceed to the next chapter and learn to program Perl modules in C with XS.

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