[cffi-devel] Re: setf-expander of FOREIGN-SLOT-VALUE

[Luis Oliveira]

Marco Gidde <marco.gidde at tiscali.de> writes:
> The setf-expansion for nested FOREIGN-SLOT-VALUE calls ist not quite
> correct:
[...]
> should do the job a bit better, though it might be optimized in some
> way (this is my first try to define a setf expander).

Thanks, I'll have a look at this tomorrow. I need to read
define-setf-expander's docs, heh. /My/ first try to define a setf
expander was mem-aref's and that was just by looking at mem-ref's
expander.


> Btw. the manual contains an example use of FOREIGN-SLOT-VALUE with the
> simplified syntax
>
> (foreign-slot-value ptr 'struct 'slot-1 'slot-2)
>
> I think CFFI has all the informations at hand to handle this, so will
> it be implemented one day?

Yes, one day. :-)


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