[cffi-devel] lispname/cname ordering

CFFI tends to have name specifications like (c-name lisp-name) whenever fully specifying the names as a list.

In CFFI-Grovel, we're tentatively doing (lisp-name &rest c-names) in several places (for constants and enums). This is so that we can easily provide a list of alternative c-names for the groveler to try as it hunts for the symbol. e.g.:

(defconstant (path-max "PATH_MAX" "MAXPATHLEN"))

which covers both SYSVish and BSDish systems.

But this is bad because it's backwards from what CFFI does. Anyone have any ideas on a good syntax? I'd really like groveler forms to strongly resemble CFFI (or CL) forms to reduce user confusion.

Matthew Backes lucca@accela.net