On 29-11-2022 10:13, Francis Grizzly Smit wrote:
Hi Francis,
Personally I never use \name are I hate how it looks, and so far I
have never needed it, so unless I can find something it can do that I
cannot do any other way, I'll keep on not using it
To show an example where I could use it I have defined a series of types
in the Gnome packages of mine and could then use it everywhere as a
type. The glib has several types defined which I wanted to use in my
code so that I can cut and paste the code from the C source into Raku
source without much changes.
There is a file defined in Gnome::N where a list of types is defined
…
constant \gboolean is export = int32;
constant \gchar is export = int8;
constant \gdouble is export = num64;
constant \gfloat is export = num32;
constant \gint is export = int32;
…
And later in other modules I could then use these definitions, here for
example 'gint'.
…
sub gtk_widget_add_events (
N-GObject $widget, gint $events
) is native(>k-lib)
{ * }
…
The types file is generated to cope with int sizes differing on several
implementations. E.g. a long int could be 32 or 64 bits depending on the
implementation or OS or chip or ….
