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Re: Guile and Swig
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Daniel Hartwig |
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Re: Guile and Swig |
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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:06:38 +0800 |
On 17 April 2013 13:28, Dmitry Bogatov <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello, list!
>
Hello now
> Is using SWIG[1] is endorsed for writing Guile wrappers to C library? I
> make such bindings for libircclient[2] for my project, but it would be
> nice, if it would find way to official Guile tree. Are here some
> guidelines about it?
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The guile support in swig is under maintained at best. It may not
even work correctly for guile-2.0.
> Also, question of style of Lisp code. It seems, that most common style
> is `(action object arg1 ...)` and I find making object callable is more
> elegant: `(object #:action arg1 ...)`. Is it discouraged?
On some level both styles are functionally equivalent, although
conceptually they are quite different. It is more or less a matter of
taste. However, certain tasks are easier in one style or the other.
Why do you find the second style more elegant?