[cffi-devel] lispname/cname ordering

[Matthew Backes]

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 at accela.net