Hi,
Two suggestions:
1. Could we have a plural form of WITH-FOREIGN-POINTER (similarly to
WITH-FOREIGN-OBJECTS, WITH-FOREIGN-STRINGS).
2. In my own code, I usually use something like this:
(defmacro with-multiple-bindings (macro)
"Define a version of `macro' with multiple arguments, given as a
list. Application of `macro' will be nested. The new name is the
plural of the old one (generated using format)."
(let ((plural (intern (format nil "~aS" macro))))
`(defmacro ,plural (bindings &body body)
,(format nil "Multiple binding version of ~(~a~)." macro)
(if bindings
`(,',macro ,(car bindings)
(,',plural ,(cdr bindings)
,@body))
`(progn ,@body)))))
(with-multiple-bindings with-foreign-pointer)
Incorporating something similar would replace the repetitions in the
CFFI code, and make it easier to define plural forms.
Cheers,
Tamas