Re: [cffi-devel] Re: [Fwd: RE: [Ecls-list] Foreign variables setting problem]

On 26/out/2005, at 22:36, Faré wrote:

Ahem. I think it's good to have higher-level things that do more for you, but they should be layered portably on top of the low-level access primitives. Use symbol-macros, define-set-expander and suches if you want your variable access to magically manage memory. CFFI should start with the low-level.

Oh yes, of course. 'low-level' is a relative concept though. Do you think CFFI's current approach is too high-level?

1. foreign-symbol-ptr to get a pointer to the foreign variable.

2. defcvar to define a symbol macro for accessing a foreign variable (built on top of foreign-symbol-ptr).

3. eventually expand defcvar to do more for the user wrt to memory management.