Yes, the marshalling may indeed be useful. I'm looking forward to see  
it.

Thanks,

Glenn

V. Glenn Tarcea
[email protected]

On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Jeremy Hughes wrote:

> Hi Glenn,
>
> Glad you like it.
>
> The next step is alien.marshall. It builds on alien.inline to add
> automatic marshalling and unmarshalling. Maybe you'll find that useful
> too.
>
> Jeremy
>
> Glenn Tarcea <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I just read your blog posting on alien.inline. This is so very, very
>> cool!
>>
>> I have a FFI interface to BerkeleyDB that uses a separate set of C
>> functions that I wrote as "glue" code between Factor and the
>> BerkeleyDB API to make interfacing easier. Looking over alien.inline,
>> I think I might be able to get rid of this separate C code, and
>> instead redo it using your alien.inline interface.
>>
>> I'm just getting back to Factor after almost a year away from it (ah
>> life). I've followed what has been going on with the language but
>> haven't really done much. A while back Slava suggested I document and
>> wrap unit tests around the BerkeleyDB interface when I previously
>> piped up about my little port. I think I'll switch over to your
>> alien.inline and finally get around to writing the documentation and
>> unit tests.
>
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