Re: Will guile ever have (or care about having) users?

[bernard URBAN <Bernard dot Urban at meteo dot fr>]

>>>>> "John" == John Daschbach <d3h486@wd29688.emsl.pnl.gov> writes:

    [...]

    John> In the current guile (1.4) a scheme function written in C,
    John> called from another C function via gh_lookup() will not be
    John> replaced by a user redefinition from the repl (guile-user),
    John> yet a direct call to this function will be redefined.

This behaviour is obviously annnoying.

Nevertheless, I understand it that way:
If you stick with gh_* without gh_repl, you are extending your
chemical package with guile.
If you use gh_* WITH gh_repl, you are in fact extending guile with
your chemical package (which could then best define its primitives
through a guile module, and its data structures through smobs).

I am not sure this second use of guile was really intended when the
gh_ interface was designed, hence the difficulty you encounter.

And do not forget: the executable guile is only a specific use of
libguile, ant the use of guile can itself be interactive (with repl)
or not (scripts).

I am perfectly happy that guile allows all these possibilities
(I do not know of a libperl), but
you must be aware of what you really want.

Regards.

-- 

B. Urban