Re: Some dynamic module questions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:21:14 +0100
> From: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasilij.de>
> Cc: eller.helmut@gmail.com, p.stephani2@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I don't yet see why would you need to send data to a module.  Why not
> > generate that data in the module code itself, based on some Lisp you
> > get from Emacs?
> 
> I don't see why you would need to question my approach:

Because adding an interface doesn't come for free.  Someone will need
to code it, test, document it, etc.  That is why the modules interface
allows only a relatively small set of objects across.

> In any case, Stefan answered the question satisfactorily: It does make
> sense to have an equivalent API to transfer unibyte data back to Lisp
> code.

So now you get to choose whose answer to accept.