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From: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_make_gsubr question
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:00:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xy7lm1gi4an.fsf@nada.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31y38oftg.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "19 Jan 2003 23:55:23 +0000")

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

>>>>>> "William" == William Morgan <wmorgan@masanjin.net> writes:
>
>     William> Is there a way to specify, at the time you call
>     William> scm_make_gsubr, a user data parameter which is passed to
>     William> the corresponding C function? [...]
>
> This has just been discussed on guile-user - please see the archives
> there.  (Summary: (i) no (ii) you could use an applicable smob (iii)
> description of a roundabout way of achieving the same thing.)
>
>     William> If not, I would like to submit a patch...
>
> Please do so; however, here is my view of why we don't already have
> this (and which may amount to a good reason not to add it - I don't
> know).

I don't think it's a good idea to add this to gsubrs.

We already have three different ways to do it:

1. applicable smobs

2. compiled closures (cclo)

3. entities and operators (applicable structs)

Of these, 1 and 2 are easy to do from C.

M


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-19 20:40 scm_make_gsubr question William Morgan
2003-01-19 23:55 ` Neil Jerram
2003-01-20  8:24   ` Rob Browning
2003-01-20  8:58     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-01-20  9:00   ` Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2003-01-20 19:07     ` William Morgan
2003-01-20 20:03       ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-02-02 22:55     ` Dale P. Smith
2003-01-21 15:04 ` Marius Vollmer

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