C::Blocks and Devel::Declare

There are a couple of different ways to hook into the Perl parser and define a keyword that flags your own funky syntax - neither of which I'd heard of until encountering the absolute genius that is C::Blocks.

C::Blocks embeds C code right into your Perl, using a cblock { this is C here } syntax that is just incredibly groovy. It's way more inline than Inline. OK, so it's not production-ready yet, but still - it will be. And I'm going to do that same thing for HBScheme.

So anyway, C::Blocks uses the shiny new pluggable keyword API to do that (introduced in 5.12) - but Devel::Declare lets you do pretty much the same thing, but less elegantly and safely. The difference appears to be that the pluggable keyword is available from XS and expects you to return opcodes (that is, it's a real live hook into the interpreter) while Devel::Declare runs in Perl and returns strings that will then be interpreted by the Perl interpreter. I might be wrong about that, but I haven't really gotten into it yet.

Yet.