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dollar

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A convenience macro for direct calls to foreign functions.

Note: this extension is only needed for CHICKEN versions 2.425 and higher

$

<macro>($ [RETURNTYPE] NAME (TYPE ARGUMENT) ...)<macro>

Invokes a C/C++ function by evaluating the arguments, performing the neccessary type-conversions for the foreign type-specifiers TYPE ... and calling NAME (which must be a symbol).

If RETURNTYPE is given, then the result will be converted properly and returned, otherwise void is assumed.

The type/argument lists may also be literal Scheme data or expressions of the form (quote LITERAL) or (location ...) - in this case the arguments are converted according to the type of the literal or are treated as a c-pointer, respectively.

Booleans, characters, numbers, strings, SRFI-4 number vectors and symbols are converted, all other data is passed as being of type scheme-object.

Callbacks into Scheme are not allowed inside the invoked foreign code.

This macro expands into one of the foreign-lambda*, foreign-code or foreign-value forms.

Usage

(require-library dollar)
(import dollar)

or

(require-extension dollar)

or

csc ... -extend dollar ...

Examples

($ printf "%d times Hello, %s!\n" 1000 "world")

(define f 99.2) 
(let-location ((double n))
  (let ((f ($ double modf (double f) (location n))))
    (cons n f) ) )
<enscript language=scheme>


== Notes


== Requirements


== Bugs and Limitations


== Author

[[kon lovett]]


== Version history

; 1.0.0 :


== License

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