Re: [Chicken-users] need idea for read-syntax

[Felix Winkelmann]

Am Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:00:44 +0000 hat Category 5 <address@hidden> 
geschrieben:

> Felix Winkelmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > That's basically, what `foreign-code' does (it's in the current CVS
> > HEAD):
> >
> > (foreign-code " ... ")
> > (foreign-code "var" c-string)
>
> Okay.  I think the thing that puzzles me a bit is that I see variable
> references as different beasts than (sequences of) instructions.  The
> first means 'this thing' and the second means 'do this'.  It seems a
> little confusing to use the same form for both purposes.

Admittedly, that's true. How about two different forms:

(foreign-code " ... ")
(foreign-expression " ... " TYPE)

?

> On a slightly different topic, is there a lexically-scoped version of
> define-foreign-variable (like there is for define-location)?

No. Good point.


cheers,
felix