From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: FFI supports callbacks Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:23:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87vd6jomno.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> References: <87bp8ej3w3.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4n2hh5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87k4n0w7it.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 1283728107 13846 80.91.229.12 (5 Sep 2010 23:08:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:08:27 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 06 01:08:25 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 1OsOK1-0003aC-1v for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:08:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsOK0-0000Bq-Hk for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59657 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsOJv-0000Bl-T6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsOJu-0003kn-EQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:45202) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsOJu-0003kc-8d for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:08:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsOJr-0003Y0-Ke for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 83.50.71.238 ([83.50.71.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:08:15 +0200 Original-Received: from jao by 83.50.71.238 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:08:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.50.71.238 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: jao X-URL: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5tcnTwTJ0RxzNoV4WEApsvT2QY= 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:10865 Archived-At: On Sun, Sep 05 2010, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > 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.) import-foreign-function export-foreign-function / export-to-foreign-function procedure-from-foreign-function / foreign-function-to-procedure procedure-to-foreign-function / foreign-function-from-procedure procedure-from-foreign / foreign-to-procedure procedure-to-foreign / foreign-from-procedure at any rate, i find "pointer" not clear enough. jao -- Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. - Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programing