Re: AW: [cffi-devel] New patches: 7-Jan-2006

On 2006-jan-09, at 11:11, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:

Luis Oliveira wrote:

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• Pushing cffi-features symbols to *features*

• Renamed :cffi/no-foreign-funcall and :cffi/no-long-long to cffi-features:foreign-funcall and cffi-features:long-long

respectively (with the opposite meanings of course).

I find this unfortunate. While there are guidelines against the use of negation (and the likely use of double negation), I'd prefer not to clober *features* on full-featured implementations. Therefore, # +|- NO-foobar made a lot of sense.

It's name embodied that something was not as nice as it could be. That's lost now.

That was indeed my initial idea. James, what do you think?