[fetter-devel] Request for comments on new interface

[Rayiner Hashem]

On 10/8/05, Tomi K Neste <tomi.neste at netikka.fi> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:33:40 +0300, Rayiner Hashem <rayiner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > (verrazano:deftarget cffi-lispy
> >   (:backend :cffi)
> >   (:name-style :lisp-style)   ; or :c-style
> >   (:search-mode :strict))    ; or :helpful (better name???)
> >
>
> > I'd love to recieve any comments that would help me make this
> > interface better (or suggest to me to scrap it entirely and do
> > something else :)
> >
> Since most C (and some C++) libs have some prefixes ("gl", "fl" etc.) that
> aren't really necessary in CL it would be nice if the user could provide
> his own function for the :name-style to do the lispification of names.
> Simple :strip-prefix option might work but letting the user decide the
> exact naming scheme would be more flexible and keep Verrazano agnostic
> about the issues of c-style vs. lisp-style vs some-other-style. Thought
> maybe it wouldn't be that simple because of the way Vzn handles the naming
> of c++ methods. The naming function would probably also need some extra
> information to keep the generated names consistent with the c++ method
> signatures.

Allowing the user to specify their own naming was my original
intention. Naming of various elements in the generated output is
broken out into a set of generic functions. These should be
parameterized on the :name-style parameter, so the user can add a
method to the GF, and pass Verrazano a custom naming style.

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