From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Some dynamic module questions Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:26:18 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtz2om79.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zh33neyv.fsf@gnu.org> <83wny7nd2b.fsf@gnu.org> <83v9drncx7.fsf@gnu.org> <20201127135406.GI1558@odonien.localdomain> <83pn3yomzz.fsf@gnu.org> <20201127152114.GJ1558@odonien.localdomain> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6405"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, eller.helmut@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vasilij Schneidermann Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 16:31:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kifiQ-0001bd-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:31:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kifiP-0004QF-Hg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kifds-0007yN-5D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:26:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kifdr-0000V3-KE; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:26:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1111 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kifdq-0004E9-Mi; Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:26:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20201127152114.GJ1558@odonien.localdomain> (message from Vasilij Schneidermann on Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:21:14 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:259896 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:21:14 +0100 > From: Vasilij Schneidermann > Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > I don't yet see why would you need to send data to a module. Why not > > generate that data in the module code itself, based on some Lisp you > > get from Emacs? > > I don't see why you would need to question my approach: Because adding an interface doesn't come for free. Someone will need to code it, test, document it, etc. That is why the modules interface allows only a relatively small set of objects across. > In any case, Stefan answered the question satisfactorily: It does make > sense to have an equivalent API to transfer unibyte data back to Lisp > code. So now you get to choose whose answer to accept.