Re: multi-lingual guile: language strictness

["Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>]

> On 14 Jul 2018, at 20:45, Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 07/14/2018 09:22 AM, Hans Åberg wrote:
>>> On 14 Jul 2018, at 15:53, William ML Leslie <william.leslie.ttg@gmail.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 14 July 2018 at 12:57, Brett Gilio 
>>> <brettg@posteo.net>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is this possibility for making Guile multi-lingual a promised feature,
>>>> or more of a wishlist type thing? I'll have to think about some ways
>>>> that might be good to approach this, because the limiting
>>>> volunteer-community is definitely going to be an issue.
>>>> 
>>> It's already a thing.
>>> 
>>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Other-Languages.html
>> Is it possible to call them at the same time, via the C interface?
>> 
> I would think so.  In general all languages see the same name space.
> 
> scheme@(guile-user)> ,L ecmascript
> Happy hacking with ECMAScript!  To switch back, type `,L scheme'.
> ecmascript@(guile-user)> function foo(x) { return x + 1; };
> ecmascript@(guile-user)> foo(1);
> $1 = 2
> ecmascript@(guile-user)> ,L scheme
> Happy hacking with Scheme!  To switch back, type `,L ecmascript'.
> scheme@(guile-user)> (foo 1)
> $2 = 2

Yes, that is what I asked for, to be able to create objects in one language and interact with the same objects in another.