Re: gEDA-user: Resistor valuesâ

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Stephan Boettcher wrote:
>
>>  I can imagine that it's not a lot, since this is really a classical
>> case for said design pattern.
>
> The real difficulty here is the complexity of the Guile<->C
> interface. The functions and data on the C side are accessible to the
> midlayer only to the extent that somebody does the (difficult) work of
> exporting them. The C front end is very procedural, performing much
> semantic processing regardless of whether the back end ever requests
> the results. Not a good match to the factored, functional approach.

Than that is the interface that needs to be morphed according to the
prescribed pattern: the C<->Guile interface.  

And when that's the case, a clean C-API that can be exported to Guile,
Python, Ruby, C++, Fortran, ... just dreaming.

-- 
Stephan



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