Re: [Csnd-dev] S7 scheme and Csound 7

This is an excellent idea. Does S7 Scheme have the ability to declare and
call foreign functions?

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 23:02 Victor Lazzarini <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe Iain Duncan can comment on this.
>
> I’ve recently contributed bindings for SBCL and was interested in
> investigating bindings for Scheme. Looking around for a suitable version, I
> seemed to recall a mention of S7 scheme, but that wasn’t on the list of the
> “most popular” scheme implementations. Then I googled it and saw Iain’s
> name alongside so then I remembered he had added it to Max.
>
> So the idea of S7 seems to be that it’s just a Scheme interpreter you can
> add as an extension to your system. It comes as a single source file and a
> header.
> I thought maybe it would be straightforward to offer an S7 with built-in
> Csound 7 host API bindings. Then we could run Csound from S7 scheme (as we
> can
> from SBCL etc). Maybe it would be a neat application for live coding.
> Perhaps that would allow easy Common Music integration since CM also runs
> from S7?
>
> Thoughts?
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> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
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