Am 08.09.2011 um 18:30 schrieb Liam Healy: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Luís Oliveira <luis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Frank Goenninger <f...@me.com> wrote: >>> May I vote for DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE as its name? >> >> I agree that DEFCSTRUCT* is a lousy name, but DEFCSTRUCT-BY-VALUE is >> misleading, since there's more going on. How about >> DEFINE-FOREIGN-STRUCTURE. In any case, the idea is to deprecate >> DEFCSTRUCT. >> >> Suggestions on how to best handle backwards-incompatible API changes >> like this are most welcome. >> >> -- >> Luís Oliveira >> http://r42.eu/~luis/ >> > > Why not defcstruct (suitably enhanced, of course) for everything? I > don't want to preclude calling by reference those foreign structures I > also need to call by value. So something that's called exclusively by > reference should work too. If an application which only calls by > reference doesn't want to use the translators, we can leave them > undefined.
Yep, true. KISS - it's always better to be as simple as possible. Frank _______________________________________________ cffi-devel mailing list cffi-devel@common-lisp.net http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cffi-devel
