[cffi-devel] Re: Macro-ifying a Python callback

[Luís Oliveira]

Jeremy Smith <jeremy at decompiler.org> writes:
> I have 2 questions, one specific to Python.
>
> *How do I create a callback with a gynsym'd symbol, which actually refers to 
> a lambda expression and not a defun'd function? The %callback thing seems 
> hard-wired to specifically naming it with a symbol, and creating a global 
> scope for it, which is okay as long as I can create non-clashing
> lambda's.

I'm not sure what you want here. You can write a macro that expands into
a defcallback with a name created by gensym.

  (defmacro foo (....)
    `(defcallback ,(gensym) (...)
       ...))

What exactly do you want to do?


> *The Python specific one is: Given a function which takes the following 
> definition:

Did you forget to actually ask the question? I couldn't understand what
the question was.

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