Re: Accessing multiple values from C

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

On Tue 01 Nov 2011 16:34, Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:

> I was playing around with some C code that uses the new R6RS
> bytevector ports, and I noticed that there doesn't seem to be an easy
> way (a la `let-values' or `receive') to access multiple return values
> from C.  I've resorted to doing:
>
>   scm_struct_ref (foo, SCM_INUM0);
>
> ...which is almost certainly not future-proof.  All I want to do is
> access these values as a pair or list.  Is there a Right Way to do
> that?

Not yet.  You interested in adding scm_c_value_ref (SCM, size_t) to the
API, and documentation to api-control.texi?  If you do it soon, it
will make it into 2.0.4.

Andy
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