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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: openlog(3), syslog(3) in perl
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Date: 17 Mar 90 15:23:44 GMT
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I don't think I would want to add the code for all the Section 3 calls
into the Perl executable.  Some of them are pretty big.

Barring some kind of COFF 'do' that lets you load code dynamically,
this seems close to insoluble.  Better to put the POPULAR calls into
Perl directly.

Or define a user-extensions module, created when you build Perl,
that accepts a switch-code at entry followed by a list of parameters,
and branches and does the right thing.   Ooh, pretty scary kids.