On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Luís Oliveira luismbo@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Frank Goenninger frgo@me.com wrote:
May I vote for DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE as its name?
I agree that DEFCSTRUCT* is a lousy name, but DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE is misleading, since there's more going on. How about DEFINE-FOREIGN-STRUCTURE. In any case, the idea is to deprecate DEFCSTRUCT.
Suggestions on how to best handle backwards-incompatible API changes like this are most welcome.
-- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis/
Why not defcstruct (suitably enhanced, of course) for everything? I don't want to preclude calling by reference those foreign structures I also need to call by value. So something that's called exclusively by reference should work too. If an application which only calls by reference doesn't want to use the translators, we can leave them undefined.