Hi,
Mentions of cffi for CLISP from Yaroslav Kavenchuk and not having heard anything from James Bielman for the last 6 month in the clisp mailing list, I was curious and looked at the current cffi sources.
The many short functions make reading the source easy. I also appreciate very much the extensible type system.
For example, :string+ptr (returns both foreign pointer and Lisp string) is very useful (esp. with :malloc/free allocation). I wonder whether using that, one can very precisely define the allocation of substructures, which is not possible with the CLISP FFI. What I mean is that :allocation in CLISP guides the whole parameter, and one cannot say: "stack allocate the structure, but malloc the storage for this one slot". It's either take all or nothing. Well, I think I've had 1-2 cases where this would have been useful.
BTW, this was also my first use of darcs. I quite enjoy it and appreciate its interactive mode. I like being able to choose among the diff snippets when recording a patch.
Is there a means to have darcs show what happened to function foo in file bar (i.e. see the diffs only apropos the current line 100)?
Keep on the good work (still some to do :)
Regards, Jorg Hohle
On 12/19/05, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle@t-systems.com wrote:
For example, :string+ptr (returns both foreign pointer and Lisp string) is very useful (esp. with :malloc/free allocation). I wonder whether using that, one can very precisely define the allocation of substructures, which is not possible with the CLISP FFI. What I mean is that :allocation in CLISP guides the whole parameter, and one cannot say: "stack allocate the structure, but malloc the storage for this one slot". It's either take all or nothing. Well, I think I've had 1-2 cases where this would have been useful.
Sounds doable, not sure if it's straightforward. In any case the first step will be to support alternative allocation schemes.
BTW, this was also my first use of darcs. I quite enjoy it and appreciate its interactive mode. I like being able to choose among the diff snippets when recording a patch.
Darcs is indeed pretty good at least for small projects/teams.
Keep on the good work (still some to do :)
Indeed there is a lot do still. I think I should publish my TODO list somewhere, since more people are starting to help and submit patches.
-- Luís Oliveira http://student.dei.uc.pt/~lmoliv/ Equipa Portuguesa do Translation Project http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?team=pt
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