Re: [Clg-devel] The FFI wrapper in CLG

[Marco A. <ma...@cs...>]

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> Marco Antoniotti <ma...@cs...> writes:
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> > Fine,  I did get so far.  However, what are you trying to achieve that
> > 
> >        (defmethod foo ((x integer)) ...)
> > 
> > will not be able to?
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> This will not work because x is *not* an object of type integer, but a
> type specifier (eg. fixnum, (integer 100), signed-byte) for a subtype of
> integer. These methods are mostly invoked at compile time during
> macroexpansion, not when FFI calls are done at runtime.

If I understand you correctly, you wan to do things like

   (foo '(mod 100))

to work when you defined

   (deftype-method foo integer ....)

Is it the case?

Cheers

Marco


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