Re: thanks

[Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen at cs dot uu dot nl>]

(gratuitious CC to the guile-list)

jimb@red-bean.com writes:
> 
> > Just  a quick note to say thanks for the good work you've been doing
> > on GUILE:
> > 
> >    Thanks!
> 
> Thanks, Han-Wen.  I do wish I'd been able to help you more with
> Guile-ifying LilyPond, but I don't think I had much insight into the
> issues.

Integrating GUILE has learned me much about how interpreters and
Scheme works.  I had to skip to the .c sources directly to find out
what I was looking for many times. I don't have a problem with that,
since the sources are very clean, but others may have.

(climbing soapbox)

So I think that there is definitely a need for more documentation.

Also, I think that the gh_ interface is not very useful, if you build
an application that has more complex functionality than an interpreter
with a REP loop.

Browsing lily sources reveals calls to scm_assoc, scm_assoc_set_x,
scm_reverse ,scm_mkstrpor, scm_ftell, scm_eval_x, scm_read,
scm_fill_input, scm_puts, scm_unprotect_object, scm_protect_object,
and lots more. I don't think the gh_ interface is rich enough for my
purposes, and frankly, I still don't know what it is for exactly.

> Good luck!

Thanks, we're getting there.  Replacing C pointers with SMOB
references is dramatically simplifying our code. GUILE rules, SMOBS
kick ass!

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Han-Wen Nienhuys, hanwen@cs.uu.nl ** GNU LilyPond - The Music Typesetter 
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