[fetter-devel] Re: C-FFI backend, Cairo demo

[Kenny Tilton]

<sigh> Now I know why I "missed" Rayiner's original. I set up my mail 
reader to auto-sort messages into sub-folders. Good idea, if only I 
could get into the habit of checking those sub-folders for new mail. :)

Luis Oliveira wrote:

> On 15/ago/2005, at 01:25, Rayiner Hashem wrote:
>
>> Luis, does C-FFI support anything like UFFI's DEF-FOREIGN-VAR? 
>
Rayiner, did you use James's or Luis's branch when developing your 
latest release? I will guess James's based on this.

>
> Not James' branch, yet. But mine yes. 


[And while I am being an obnoxious Lisp English language chauvinist, see 
above for a hint at a grammar rule not known even to most native English 
speakers. The "no trailing 's'" rule is for /plurals/ ending in 's'.]

>
>
> (defcvar name type &key read-only)
>
This is getting pretty exciting. The two of you are headed straight for 
the Lisp Hall of Fame. But we definitely need the Grand Unification: VZN 
with CFFI/Luis. I was going to retract that and say it was more 
important that each project be fully finished by summer's end, but then 
how does Rayiner test callbacks? Come to think of it, does a C/C++ 
header even give enough information to automatically generate -- oops. 
Callback stubs? Or will that always be an exercise for the developer?

-- 
Kenny

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