[Vm-dev] Re: FFI syntax

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Andreas Raab wrote:

>
> On 3/24/2011 19:35, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> Isn't it the best time to migrate the syntax of FFI calls to Pragmas? I 
>> know it takes some time to implement the pragma support, but IIRC Lukas did 
>> that a few years ago, so dusting it off and adding support for threaded 
>> calls (which I didn't see yet) shouldn't be that hard.
>
> Sorry, but that's a decidedly bad idea. It breaks each and every use of the 
> FFI out there. The FFI syntax and support is what it is, so please leave it 
> alone. If you want to implement something different, then implement something 
> different and do it in a form that doesn't conflict with the FFI so that both 
> can live side by side.

That's the idea:
"Both formats could be supported for a while, then we could leave the 
current format behind and simplify the parsers/compilers, etc."

Even tools can be built to convert from one syntax to the other.


Levente

>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>> Both formats could be supported for a while, then we could leave the 
>> current format behind and simplify the parsers/compilers, etc.
>> 
>> 
>> Levente
>