Re: Guile and Swig

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi!

Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org> skribis:

> Is using SWIG[1] is endorsed for writing Guile wrappers to C library? I
> make such bindings for libircclient[2] for my project, but it would be
> nice, if it would find way to official Guile tree.  Are here some
> guidelines about it?

As Daniel noted, this may not be a good idea these days.  Besides, Guile
2.0 comes with two nice ways to write bindings: the FFI in the (system
foreign) module, and its C API.  It’s not automatic, but it many cases
you may be able to come up with some level of project-specific
automation on top of these.

> Also, question of style of Lisp code. It seems, that most common style
> is `(action object arg1 ...)` and I find making object callable is more
> elegant: `(object #:action arg1 ...)`. Is it discouraged?

I’ve never seen that second style in Scheme or even Lisp code.

Even GOOPS, Guile’s object oriented layer, which derives from CLOS
(Common Lisp’s), uses the first style.

Ludo’.