Indeed, I first approached it this way. But the length needs to be calculated somewhere, and making it here has the benefit of preserving the arglist of translate-into-foreign-memory which is parallel to translate-to-foreign by design. If you think this works, I will commit it.
Liam On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Luís Oliveira <lolive...@common-lisp.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Liam Healy <l...@healy.washington.dc.us> > wrote: >> How does this look? > > It looks overly complicated. It should be a single call to > LISP-STRING-TO-FOREIGN... Except we need to know the size of the > target foreign memory. Guess we need to add an optional length slot to > the string type, and this method needs to assert its existence. > > -- > Luís Oliveira > http://kerno.org/~luis/
