Re: Geting the value of a top level scheme value from C

2014-01-24 Thread Mark H Weaver
Richard Shann writes: > Given a C string that is the name of a Scheme variable what is the call > I need to make from C to get the value? > > That is, in the Scheme I have > > (define foo "bar") > > Then in C I want to write > > SCM bar = scm_var_c_get_val ("foo");//imaginary function name SCM

Re: Geting the value of a top level scheme value from C

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Shann
Thanks for all the replies - sorry I didn't spot that section of the manual (perhaps because it came under "Using modules" and I haven't dipped my toes in that stuff). I have it working now. Richard On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 12:34 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Richard Shann writes: > > > Given a C

Re: Geting the value of a top level scheme value from C

2014-01-24 Thread Thompson, David
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Richard Shann wrote: > Given a C string that is the name of a Scheme variable what is the call > I need to make from C to get the value? > > That is, in the Scheme I have > > (define foo "bar") > > Then in C I want to write > > SCM bar = scm_var_c_get_val ("foo");

Re: Geting the value of a top level scheme value from C

2014-01-24 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2014/1/24 Richard Shann : > Given a C string that is the name of a Scheme variable what is the call > I need to make from C to get the value? [...] i think it is all well described here: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Accessing-Modules-from-C.html however, note that according

Geting the value of a top level scheme value from C

2014-01-24 Thread Richard Shann
Given a C string that is the name of a Scheme variable what is the call I need to make from C to get the value? That is, in the Scheme I have (define foo "bar") Then in C I want to write SCM bar = scm_var_c_get_val ("foo");//imaginary function name strcmp ("bar", scm_to_locale_string (bar));