On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> For use from a Fortran program I am collecting API fixes for libguile.so >> as wrapper functions for what is provided to C-programs as macros. >> I noted that some of the macros are function-macros some are symbol >> macros. An example of the latter is >> >> #define scm_to_int scm_to_int23 > > The macros in numbers.h that are “symbol macros”, such as > ‘scm_from_int’, allow users to write code like: > > &scm_from_int > > This wouldn’t be possible if these were function macros. > > Thus, I think things will have to remain this way.
Hi, It's ok. You may close it. I still think it could be less confusing if the libguile.so implemented/provided functions as advertised in Guile API docs for the sake of interfacing to languages other than C. And &scm_from_int wold also work if it were a real function. But there are many more macros, so such a link-time interface would be a lot of work, I realize by now. Alexei
