Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-16 Thread Marius Vollmer
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions > > exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the > > sense that a pilot error can not lead to memory corruption, memory

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-15 Thread Rob Browning
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, very true. I guess my main point is that I don't want > guile-gtk to degrade when switrhcing to g-wrap. That is, the work > of avoiding "dangerous" things has been done (more or less) and I > don't want to lose this. Totally understandable. >

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-13 Thread Marius Vollmer
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is because in general, I tend to favor this approach to one > that tries to hide the allocation semantics. Like it or not, when > you're wrapping a C API, I think you generally *do* have to know > (and care) about the allocation semantics, and I te

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 12 Nov 2000 18:56:28 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions > > exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the > > sense th

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions > exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the > sense that a pilot error can not lead to memory corruption, memory > leaks or similar. Well, I suppose this depends o

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
(I've included gnucash-devel at this point because several of the people there should be seeing this discussion, and until I get the g-wrap list set up, which should be in about a week and a half, gnucash-devel is the de-facto g-wrap devel list. I'll also CC your previous mail there.) Ariel

[Ariel Rios ] Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
Ok guys, Attached I send the current defs file proposal. I'm ccing also the gnome-bindings list for it might be of interest to discuss possible modifications with them to this proposal. ariel The overall syntax is: (type-of-thing-being-defined name-used-to-refer-to-this-thing (a