CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
  • History and Background
  • Basic Structure
  • Layers vs Disciplines
  • Data Structures
  • Functions and Attributes
  • Per-instance Data
  • Layers in action.
  • Per-instance flag bits
  • Methods in Detail
  • Utilities
  • Implementing PerlIO Layers
  • Core Layers
  • Extension Layers
• TODO

#NAME

perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.

#SYNOPSIS

/* Defining a layer ... */
#include <perliol.h>

#DESCRIPTION

This document describes the behavior and implementation of the PerlIO abstraction described in