Re: [Swig-user] constants -> procedures in Chicken?

[John L. <le...@cs...>]

John Lenz wrote:
> Now, it would be pretty easy to add a %feature (see
> http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Customization.html) to export both constants
> and immutable variables as scheme values and not scheme functions.
> 
> What I would do is in the generated .scm file, add code like
> 
> (set! myconst (myconst))
> 
> or if -proxy is given
> 
> (define myconst ((vector-ref swig-init-return 3)))
> 

Ok, I just coded this up.  I named it as

%feature("constasvar")

and you can apply that feature to any constant or variable, and it will
export the set! code above in the generated .scm file.  You can either
enable it as a global option (or on the command line with -features
constasvar), or apply it to individual constants, or all the other ways
%features can be applied.

I am about to commit it to CVS, but does anyone have a better name for
the feature?  Is there a similar feature in other languages, that we
could use the same name?

John