On 02/28/2014 01:39 AM, Nowlan, Sean wrote: >> Hey Sean, > >> I /think/ so. I'd have to double check, but at some point it's >> likely to go through a symbol_to_string conversion. > >> Can you think of a need for a port name to be something other than >> a symbol/string? Maybe an enumeration or something? > >> Tom > > In a certain block I'm registering N ports, where N is a constructor > argument to the block. I was hoping I could call them > pmt::from_long(0) through pmt::from_long(N-1), but that didn't work. > I ended up creating string names "out0" through "outK" (where K = > N-1) and then used pmt::string_to_symbol.
I doubt anyone implemented that to limit names, it was more likely that we didn't think of this use case. If you see this is a small, non-invasive change that would allow other PMTs to be port names, that would be interesting to see. M _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
