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: proposal: scm_c_public_ref et al Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:22:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87zkp77uti.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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 1299450206 20855 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 22:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:23:26 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 23:23:22 2011 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 1PwMM9-0005LG-QP for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:23:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwMM8-0000cP-0D for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:23:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55264 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwMLy-0000a0-7u for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwMLv-0003mL-Cy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwMLv-0003lX-2h for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PwMLt-0005Eq-HT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:23:01 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:23:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 16 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vent=F4se?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= 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/5.110013 (No Gnus v0.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f1o2BwWDx132tzlYIQTTy4/mZrw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:11795 Archived-At: Hi! Andy Wingo writes: > SCM scm_public_lookup (SCM module_name, SCM sym); > SCM scm_private_lookup (SCM module_name, SCM sym); > > Look up a variable bound to SYM in the module named MODULE_NAME. If > the module does not exist or the symbol is unbound, signal an > error. The "public" variant looks in the public interface of the > module, while scm_private_lookup looks into the module itself. So this would be equivalent to: scm_module_variable (scm_resolve_module (module_name), sym) ? I’m skeptical about adding 8 convenience C functions “as we move more and more to writing code in Scheme and not in C” ;-), but if that’s what people really want, then I won’t object. Thanks, Ludo’.