Re: [Guile-sdl-devel] Merging guile-SDL-s [Was - Announcing Projector - Guile bindings for SDL]

[Alex S. <fo...@de...>]

>>>>> "Vikram" == Vikram Subramanian <vi...@ww...> writes:

    Vikram> OOps, Got my mail filters wrong and this went into the SDL
    Vikram> folder and I didn't see the previous mail. I also thought
    Vikram> of init-ing as the module is loaded , but how do we handle
    Vikram> errors in initiliazation.

Good point... we could let them use wasInit() to be sure everything
went OK.  If they're being careful they have to check the status of
the init anyway.

    >> In these cases I was using simple lists.  The above example
    >> would return (2 20 10), which is a little faster.  I suppose
    >> the question is are we more concerned with speed or having the
    >> results make sense in other contexts?

    Vikram> I thought writing docs and explaining it to someone else
    Vikram> would be a much easier job with alists.

Since these are basically convenience functions, and a normal tight
event loop would use the accessors for the event smob, we don't need
to be especially efficient here so the alists sound better.

    Vikram> Then I'll start the work??.Tomorrow (21st) I'll take your
    Vikram> sources put them in a layout similar to mine (change
    Vikram> filenames if needed) and then add my extra functions and
    Vikram> stuff and maybe have one source file using snarfing.  Then
    Vikram> we better put it up in the CVS(or I'll tarball it) and
    Vikram> continue with conversion to a snarfable version by
    Vikram> dividing the work.

OK, as I said I had already started working on this.  The code is at
http://eyeofdog.org/foof/code/guile-sdl/guile-sdl-merged.tar.bz2.  I'm
using your layout and file names, but most of my code, with almost all
gh_ functions renamed, and SCM_INUMP replaced with scm_exact_p.  I
started converting SCM_INUM and gh_scm2long with scm_num2long, but was
careless reading the prototype... where I have

  scm_num2long (s_num)

I should have used

  scm_num2long (s_num, (char*) SCM_ARGN, "function-name")

I won't have time to help tonight, but will have time tomorrow.

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Alex Shinn <fo...@de...>
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