Arthur Smyles wrote:
> I was following the tutorial about defining new types ( 
> http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/manual/html_node/Tutorial_002dTypes.html#Tutorial_002dTypes).
>  When I tried to redefine the type translator for an enum type 
> (translate-from-foreign), the type was not being changed. I took a look at 
> the source code and discovered that translate-type-from-foreign is 
> specialized on enum types. However, unlike the unspecialized method, this 
> method doesn't call translate-from-foreign. Either the manual is out of date, 
> or there is a bug here.

Translation is done only for foreign-typedefs, which are created with
define-foreign-type.

I don't think more general type-translation extension can be done well
without aligning the framework more with CLOS.

-- 
Stephen Compall
http://scompall.nocandysw.com/blog
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