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

Would it make more sense to have the FFI in the Csound 7 repository, or in
the S7 Scheme distribution?

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Michael Gogins
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 9:40 AM Victor Lazzarini <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Looks like it's a core feature
>
> s7 <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html>
> ccrma.stanford.edu <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html>
> [image: favicon.ico] <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html>
> <https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html>
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> Prof. Victor Lazzarini
> Maynooth University
> Ireland
>
> On 26 Sep 2024, at 08:17, Michael Gogins <[email protected]> wrote:
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> This is an excellent idea. Does S7 Scheme have the ability to declare and
> call foreign functions?
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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, 23:02 Victor Lazzarini <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>