Re: [modules] Possible return values of the env->type_of?

[Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>]

Am Fr., 22. Juni 2018 um 19:52 Uhr schrieb Kaushal Modi
<kaushal.modi@gmail.com>:
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>> Perhaps you'll find Philip's doc useful:
>> https://phst.github.io/emacs-modules#type_of
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> Yes! That's where I figured out the relationship between env->type_of and  type-of.
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> @Philipp Can that documentation be made part of the Emacs Manual?

Eli has now written a manual section about modules, which should
contain similar information.

> It's really useful for folks like me who don't know C. In your doc, you say:
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> > Because the module API is a C API, you have to be familiar with C to write Emacs modules.
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> But that doesn't seem to be the case for me :) Nim provides enough abstraction to use this API and make the code readable just like Python. This is what I am working on[1].
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> [1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/nim-emacs-module/blob/test-whole-emacs-module/test/modtest.nim

That's great! What I mean is "you have to know enough about syntax and
semantics of C to use the module API correctly", not "you have to know
every detail of C". In particular, the lifetime and threading issues
are quite subtle.