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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Foreign objects facility
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:05:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppk11g8o.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx9ddfp0.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2014 10:24:43 +0200")

On Mon 28 Apr 2014 10:24, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> I would have preferred to rebase SMOBs on top of structs, with the added
> documentation as to how they can be accessed from Scheme, but I suppose
> this is ruled out by the SCM_SETCDR issue above?

We can think of doing this in the future, at least as a
mostly-compatible shim.  The fundamental differences are really the mark
functions and the lack of "apply" capability.  Getting "apply" working
does sound possible though, given applicable structs.

Regards,

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-27 13:17 RFC: Foreign objects facility Andy Wingo
2014-04-27 16:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-04-27 16:46   ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2014-04-28 17:47     ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-27 17:51   ` Andy Wingo
2014-05-03  4:57     ` Doug Evans
2014-04-28 16:08   ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-29 16:08     ` Doug Evans
2014-04-29 18:27       ` Andy Wingo
2014-04-28  8:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-04-28 18:05   ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2014-04-29 15:56 ` Doug Evans
2014-04-29 18:25   ` Andy Wingo
2014-05-03  5:45     ` Doug Evans

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