[cffi-devel] Converting foreign structures with CFFI generic functions

Luís Oliveira luismbo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 11:15:54 UTC 2011


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Frank Goenninger <frgo at me.com> wrote:
> May I vote for DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE as its name?

I agree that DEFCSTRUCT* is a lousy name, but DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE is
misleading, since there's more going on. How about
DEFINE-FOREIGN-STRUCTURE. In any case, the idea is to deprecate
DEFCSTRUCT.

Suggestions on how to best handle backwards-incompatible API changes
like this are most welcome.

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Luís Oliveira
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