Simon Urbanek a écrit :
If you have suggestions for extending the API, feel free to post them
with exact explanations how in general that extensions could be useful
(general is the key word here - I think so far it was rather to hack
around your way of implementing it). [And FWIW tryEval *is* part of the
API].
Cheers,
Simon
Hi.
Concerning tryEval, I had a look at context.c, and it says:
/*
This is a simple interface for evaluating R expressions
from C with a guarantee that one will return to the
point in the code from which the call was made (if it does
return at all).
This uses R_TopleveExec to do this. It is important
in applications that embed R or wish to make general
callbacks to R with error handling.
It is currently hidden with a data structure definition
and C routine visible only here. The R_tryEval() is the
only visible aspect. This can be lifted into the header
files if necessary. (DTL)
R_tryEval is in Rinternals.h (so public), but not in the API.
*/
Now, here's a feature I'd like to implement with the API:
In OCaml, there's a library called Lwt. It's a library implementing
lightweight, or green, threads. The idea is the following:
Suppose I have to evaluate f (). I do:
let lwt_f = Lwt.return (f ()).
Now, I want to evaluate g (f ()). I write:
let lwt_g = lwt_f >>= (function x -> Lwt.return (g x)).
This might seem overly complicated, and it somehow is. The interesting
point is this ">>=" operator. Because it allows to compose two (or more)
computations, and it does context commutations.
So this implements threads in a cooperative way, all running in one
single real thread.
What I want to do is to be able to launch some R code, and have it
multithread with other OCaml code, within one single real thread.
Therefore I have to implement the commutation context somewhere in the
evaluation mechanism of R itself.
The API doesn't support that, I guess.
--
Guillaume Yziquel
http://yziquel.homelinux.org/
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