A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima
Subject: A lisp oriented question - interning symbols for use in Maxima
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:45:59 -0600
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> ?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
>> On a side note, is there any interest for a foreign library interface
>> in Maxima? Of course it works only in CFFI supported lisps, so no GCL
>> support, sorry. I quickly compared the calling overhead by importing
> AFAIK, gcl is a requirement. ?If it weren't an FFI would have been added
> years ago.
Well, I don't see a reason to rule out FFI stuff in add-on packages.
In order to move FFI stuff into maxima/src we would want to make
sure it works for all supported Lisps. That includes GCL at present,
but it seems plausible that it might not in the not-so-distant future.
FWIW
Robert Dodier