From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: FFI supports callbacks Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:10:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87k4n0w7it.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bp8ej3w3.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4n2hh5j.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283699825 24453 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 15:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 15:17:05 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 05 17:17:04 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsGxs-0001QQ-BM for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:17:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsGxr-00055J-8s for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47268 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsGrn-00014S-Tf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsGrm-0001DQ-4M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45560) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsGrl-0001Ce-VE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:10:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsGri-0006ba-Ie for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:10:42 +0200 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:10:42 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:10:42 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 19 Fructidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cTc+L+Ja38kGX8HKLEYGRBAU0zw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10864 Archived-At: Hi there! ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > BTW, while we’re at it, how about make-foreign-function => pointer->procedure? We briefly discussed this on IRC. One issue with the ‘pointer->procedure’ name is that ‘->’ procedures are most of the time one-argument procedures, whereas ‘make-foreign-function’ has 3 mandatory arguments. However, it occurred to me that what confuses me most about ‘make-foreign-function’ is that it actually makes a Scheme procedure out of a foreign function. Conversely, ‘procedure->pointer’ really makes a foreign function out of a Scheme procedure. In addition, I like the idea of having names that show the symmetry of these two procedures. So, what do you think? :-) (I’m also open to different names that aren’t confusing and show the symmetry.) Thanks, Ludo’.