Re: s48_extract_string?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Michael Sperber <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Donald Allen <[email protected]> writes:
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>> What is the status of the Scheme48 project? Is it being actively
>> maintained or has everyone moved on?
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> No, it is being actively maintained.
>
>> Such an old (3 minor version) error in the documentation makes me
>> wonder even more.
>
> I'm a bit confused - what's the error?

The current (v1.8) Scheme48 manual mentions s48_extract_string in
Section 8.5.2, page 96. That should be removed.

While I'm at it, in Section 8.1.1, page 91, the manual mentions the
structure "dynamic-externals". I believe that's incorrect; it's
"load-dynamic-externals".

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>> I prefer working in Scheme to anything else and Scheme48 looks very
>> nice (knowing Jonathan, I'd be surprised if it were otherwise) and, as
>> I said, the ability to call C functions is crucial for what I have in
>> mind. But I don't want to commit a lot of effort to using it if it's
>> essentially unsupported.
>
> Thanks for the praise.  As I said, the important thing to know is that
> (even though the old FFI will be supported for a while longer), we're
> moving to a new JNI/Minor-style one - you'll probably be happier using
> the development code.

I already have the code and will have a look before I do anything
substantive with the old FFI.

Thanks for the help.

/Don


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