more of the perlish syntax

[dk]

Hi Chris,

Okay, as we discussed the perlishness of the API, here's my first shot at what I would consider 'perlish enough' for my needs. I'm not really sure how it fits into your vision you have told me about yesteday, but at least that's how I understood it. You're welcome to hack it further to whatever form you deem necessary.

Dmitry

[devel-chm]

Yes, that is the general idea. However, there are some implementation details that are mostly related to issues of API stability and compatibility. The main one being that I don't want to have the basename implementation (e.g. glGetActiveUniform) used until the API is finalized. In the interim, the various steps would be as suffixed names (e.g. glGetActiveUniform_p or glGetActiveUniform_dmitry...) so that the changes in OpenGL::Modern::Helpers won't be overwriting the stable bindings.

From the point of view of availability of perlish bindings, the only difference is the routine would have a suffixed name. If it becomes the accepted, preferred implementation then we would add the more standard name. The implementation of generic type and counts for some of the glXxx[234][dusl]v routines as a glXxxv routine is definitely something of interest for a friendly perlish binding. At the moment, I'm keeping closer to the C API until things are stable so that the routines are consistent even if not very perlish.