[Vm-dev] Re: FFI syntax

[Casey Ransberger]

Is there a way to throw a facade in front of FFI that can express the stuff folks want using pragmas without breaking everyone's app?

I don't know nearly as much as I'd like to about the FFI, so sorry that this question is so uninformed, but it would be cool to have our cake and eat it too, no? Just a thought...

On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> 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.
> 
> 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