Re: Trouble creating SRFI-9 Record in C

[Olivier Dion]

On Sat, 11 Sep 2021, paul <paul@inktvis.org> wrote:

> In Guile land, that works great.  Now, i want to create a foo in C 
> and pass it to a function in the Guile script.  I do something 
> like the following:
>
> ```
> scm_c_primitive_load("foo.scm");
> scm_call_5(scm_variable_ref(scm_c_lookup("make-foo")),
>            scm_from_utf8_string("blah"),
>            scm_from_int32(Int32(42)))
> ```
>
> However, this results in an error:
>
> guile: uncaught exception:
> Wrong type to apply: #<syntax-transformer make-foo>

Seems like `make-foo` is a syntax-transformer and not a procedure.  You
can not call a syntax-transformer.  I don't think you can do much with a
syntax-transformer in C.

>
> I've tried with and without (define-module foo) at the top of the 
> file, that doesn't seem to make a difference.  I've been able to 
> work around the issue by defining a wrapper (define (foo-prime a 
> b) (make-foo a b)) and using that in C as shown above, but that 
> feels ugly.  I'm probably missing something obvious, but trawling 
> the mailing list didn't turn up anything i could understand.

By making a wrapper, you're effectively creating a procedure that can
use the `make-foo` syntax because it's in Scheme and it's solved a
expansion time.

-- 
Olivier Dion
Polymtl