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Re: FFI supports callbacks
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: FFI supports callbacks |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:04:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Greets,
On Sun 05 Sep 2010 17:10, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> BTW, while we’re at it, how about make-foreign-function =>
>> pointer->procedure?
>
> We briefly discussed this on IRC. One issue with the
> ‘pointer->procedure’ name is that ‘->’ procedures are most of the time
> one-argument procedures, whereas ‘make-foreign-function’ has 3 mandatory
> arguments.
>
> However, it occurred to me that what confuses me most about
> ‘make-foreign-function’ is that it actually makes a Scheme procedure out
> of a foreign function.
>
> Conversely, ‘procedure->pointer’ really makes a foreign function out of
> a Scheme procedure.
>
> In addition, I like the idea of having names that show the symmetry of
> these two procedures.
>
> So, what do you think? :-)
I guess I'm OK with it. The new names do convey the types better to the
programmer. I'm hesitant regarding "pointer" though; the name is just so
general. I guess I prefer "machine-pointer" or something. But I would
also be OK with the change as you propose it.
Andy
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- Re: FFI supports callbacks, (continued)
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Andy Wingo, 2010/09/03
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/09/03
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/09/05
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2010/09/05
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/09/06
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Andy Wingo, 2010/09/06
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, 2010/09/06
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Tristan Colgate, 2010/09/07
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/09/07
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Andy Wingo, 2010/09/07
- Re: FFI supports callbacks,
Andy Wingo <=
- Re: FFI supports callbacks, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/09/08