Re: [Plib-users] psl questions

[Gerald F. <gf...@tu...>]

Thanks for the swift reply!

Steve Baker wrote:
>> * 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.

Sorry, I was equivocal here, I completely agree that it may be against 
the general design to allow the import from the script side. My point 
was from the C++ side, I rather wanted to bundle math and stdio 
interface functions in extra files separated from application specific 
interfaces, in order to make them more easily reusable. As far as I 
understand, currently I would have to combine a large array of 
pslExtension objects by hand quite cumbersomely. To my mind it would 
be more elegant to provide these arrays already in the respective 
extension c++ library files, and do something like:

   pslExtension pslExtMath[], pslExtStdio[];
                // defined in extra collection files
   pslExtension extensions [] = { { NULL, 0, NULL } } ;
                // defined rather locally

   pslProgram *prog_1 = new pslProgram ( "code1" ) ;
   prog_1 -> import(pslExtMath);
   prog_1 -> import(pslExtStdio);
   prog_1 -> import(extensions);
   prog_1 -> compile ( "data/test.psl" ) ;
   ...

>> The 1.8.1 examples and documentation package seems to lack the 
>> documentation?
> 
> Really?
I just downloaded it again, the
plib_examples-1.8.1.tar.gz/plib_examples-1.8.1/doc subfolder just 
contains a CVS folder, nothing else, or am I looking at the wrong place?

Thanks and best regards
Gerald