Re: [Plib-users] psl questions

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Gerald Franz wrote:
> Dear plib users and developers,
> 
> I have some questions concerning psl. After some tests I generally like 
> its minimalistic design and ease of use for people who already know a 
> little bit of C, but still I am reluctant to implement it into an 
> ongoing project due to some unclarities:
> 
> * are there any realworld application already using it?

Right now, I'm using it in a game I'm writing - but that hasn't been
pushed out to the masses.  I havn't *heard* from anyone using it
aggressively.

My son wrote a couple of simple games using the 'Simon' demo - one of them
('Astropong') is distributed with the demo's bundle.

But you are correct in supposing that it hasn't been agressively tested.

> * are there any ways to bundle a group of extension functions, let's say 
> a math-package, and to import it more library like?

I deliberately left that stuff up to the application.  There may be very
good reasons why an application developer might not WANT the script programmer
to be able to pull in a particular library...for example, that might allow
the script to do things that would violate network security or something.

> * the main() function is normally defined in C as int main( int argc, 
> char **argv), is something equivalent possible in PSL, and if so, how to 
> access return value and arguments?

No - there isn't - and again, I leave that stuff up to the application.
If you want to provide functions for reading argc/argv type data then
you can.  I wrote functions called 'getArgc' and 'getArgv' for one of my
test applications.

> * according to the programming guide, "#define with parameters" is not 
> supported. However, it seems to work and is used in astropong?

Ack!  Out of date documentation!  My apologies.

> The 1.8.1 examples and documentation package seems to lack the 
> documentation?

Really?

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