AW: [cffi-devel] New patches: 7-Jan-2006

[Luís Oliveira]

On 2006-jan-09, at 11:11, Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril wrote:
> Luis Oliveira wrote:
>>  * Pushing cffi-features symbols to *features*
>>  - Renamed :cffi/no-foreign-funcall and :cffi/no-long-long to
>>    cffi-features:foreign-funcall and cffi-features:long-long
>> respectively
>>    (with the opposite meanings of course).
> I find this unfortunate. While there are guidelines against the use  
> of negation (and the likely use of double negation), I'd prefer not  
> to clober *features* on full-featured implementations. Therefore, # 
> +|- NO-foobar made a lot of sense.
>
> It's name embodied that something was not as nice as it could be.  
> That's lost now.

That was indeed my initial idea. James, what do you think?

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