From: Zeeshan Ali <zeenix@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Module unloading
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:06:23 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38294b7405052414062801ceba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42936F3C.3090409@ossau.uklinux.net>
Hello,
> > I'll try to test it here as well but i'll have to convert it to an
> > equivalent C code first.
>
> Out of interest, why is that? (It's easy enough to call Scheme-defined
> code from C, isn't it?)
Yes! I think i my mind is stuck in the world of C. :(
> That sounds more complex and magic than it needs to be, to me - where by
> "complex" I mean your infrastructure code using undefine, and by "magic"
> I mean that it requires plugin authors to follow a non-code-enforced
> convention about the names of the variables.
I know my design sucks and that is why i am so desperate to hear
new ideas. Let's hear yours:
> Why not use a registration
> API instead? In other words, instead of this:
>
> (define (do-plugin-thing-1 ...) ...)
> (define (do-plugin-thing-2 ...) ...)
> ...
>
> do this:
>
> (let ()
> (define (do-plugin-thing-1 ...) ...)
> (define (do-plugin-thing-2 ...) ...)
> ...
> (register-plugin do-plugin-thing-1
> do-plugin-thing-2
> ...))
>
> This way there is no magic, and the visibility of the plugin bindings is
> under the control of the plugin author. Also, this way you could stay
> pure-R5RS if you like, as you don't really need any features of the
> module system.
Sounds pretty cool. I'll give it a try. Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Zeeshan Ali
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-24 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-23 14:03 Module unloading Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-23 18:18 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-23 20:55 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-23 21:23 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-24 13:02 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-24 18:15 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-24 21:06 ` Zeeshan Ali [this message]
2005-05-24 21:26 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-26 12:16 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-26 18:33 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-26 20:00 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-26 18:25 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-26 19:45 ` Zeeshan Ali
2005-05-24 21:14 ` Rob Browning
2005-05-26 18:43 ` Neil Jerram
2005-05-26 18:57 ` Rob Browning
2005-05-26 19:05 ` Neil Jerram
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