Re: [Chicken-users] A more detailed plea for help with FFI...

[John Lenz]

On 12/15/04 13:58:12, Ed Watkeys wrote: 
> While I have you here, I was wondering if there might be a way to use 
> SWIG to generate Chicken procedure names with characters other than 
> [0-9A-Za-z-] in them. Specifically, I'd like to stick some colon in the 
> names e.g. "data-type:operation-name". Is there a way to do this in 
> SWIG?
> 

It should be possible with the %rename directive.

I just tried
%rename(a:b) func;
and SWIG gets Error: Syntax error in input.

To the SWIG devs, is there a way to get rename to accept colons?
the chicken validIdentifier function accepts : in names, but it
seems that parser.y is using idstring

line 1982: | rename_namewarn LPAREN idstring RPAREN string SEMI

John