[ERR5RS] FFI concern from a lowly user

[Leonardo Valeri Manera]

On 03/02/2008, David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 2, 2008 11:10 PM, Leonardo Valeri Manera <l.valerimanera at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On 03/02/2008, David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-0/srfi-0.html
> > >  http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-7/srfi-7.html
> >
> > I'm sorry, should I interpret that as "gain wisdom fom teh sfri's,
> > stupid nub!" or as "it shall be up to the ffi lib or/and app
> > programmer to implement as many ffi interfaces as there are scheme
> > implementations in order to make a portale app, stupid nub!" ? :D
>
> Well "stupid nub" was not part of it

I know what I am... to post this sort of thing on the ERR5RS list made
cringe, but where else was I going to ask about the ERR5RS? :D

> but one of the things that people are
> forgetting now in these days of widely portable platforms is that you
> *always* have system dependencies that need isolation. So those parts become
> the irritating seeds in the oyster of your code that help you to learn to
> produce pearls of well-structured systems :)
>
> Shanti

Just so.

I guess the best I can hope for is that one day in the future some
kind soul will make an ERR5RS lib that wraps the complexity of
multi-implementation FFIs magically away.

I do hope that you guys will spec an env var for
.scm/.sch/.sls/.swhatever libraries :)

Thanks for taking the time!

Cheers,
Leo