[gambit-list] Gambit and event-based systems

Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 08:31:57 EDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Alex Queiroz <asandroq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Álvaro Castro-Castilla
> <alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That works for implementing the events, but where is the Gambit ___setup
> > function running? You can't return from this function without breaking
> > Gambit's system.
> >
>
> `___setup` doesn't need to be "running". You call it and after it is
> finished, you can call your functions. If your code needs to do work
> in the background, you can install a timer in the host system and keep
> calling into Gambit.
>
>
Yes, you are right. I've actually done it long time ago, now that I recall.
Let me try the idea, and see if I can cleanly satisfy the library
requirement.

But yes, apparently I wasn't thinking, since if you don't have to keep
running ___setup() then it's easy to implement callbacks. Actually, the
name ___setup and the fact that ___cleanup is an independent function makes
it pretty clear. Otherwise it would have been ___run or something similar.
The confusion stemmed from the fact that I was running Scheme code directly
without calling any (c-define)'d function after ___setup(). But as I said,
I've done that before, so I wasn't thinking.

Thank you!
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