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

[Kenny Tilton]

Luis Oliveira wrote:

>On 8/15/05, Kenny Tilton <ktilton at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>[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'.]
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>Thanks. But you know, sooner or later when the Chinese take over the
>world all these weird grammar rules will be a thing the past. :-)
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Hen hao! No verb conjugation at all!! Neither for tense nor for person!

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>>>(defcvar name type &key read-only)
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>>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.
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>Ok, what does that mean exactly? More to the point, what do I have to
>do to help with that?
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I see a CFFI-Luis backend is on Rayiner's do-list, so... not much more 
than working with Rayiner to support his effort to generate bindings 
automatically. Hopefully the C++ trial library Rayiner selects will 
exercise CFFI fully (ie, include callbacks), so that will let you two 
make some pretty grand claims by summer's end. :)

-- 
Kenny

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