Re: [Chicken-users] New "easy" FFI

[Miles Egan]

felix wrote:

> Hiya!
>
> Chicken got a new FFI interface (informally called the "easy" FFI).
> It parses a subset of C and generates procedure and variable bindings
> from declarations, like this:
>
> #>! #include <math.h>
>
> #define my_pi 3.14
>
> int var = 99;
> extern double sin(double);
> <#
>
> (print (sin my_pi))
> (print (var))
> (var 123)
> (print (var)) ; now 123
>
> The parser does basic macro substitution, handles simple macros,
> enums, typedefs, variable declarations and function prototypes.
> Most preprocessor commands are implemented.

Pretty cool.

Why did you decide to treat C variables (var in the above) as scheme 
functions instead of scheme variables?

miles