Re: Creating hooks from C

[Keisuke Nishida <kxn30 at po dot cwru dot edu>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> > I'd like add docstrings for my application procedures and want to use
> > snarf macros.  Shouldn't the snarf macros be part of the API?
> 
> It is important that it is easy for an application author to extend
> his application using Guile.  If the snarf macros would be a part of
> the Guile API proper, we would force him to add the .x-file mechanism
> and calling the snarf script.  We don't want to do that.
(snip)
> But I'm not saying that an application writer *shouldn't* use the
> snarf macros.  We should regard it as a convenient optional extension.

I see.  I just thought it is good if snarf macros are regarded as a part
of the API.  It's the application author's decision not to use it.

> BTW, regarding doc strings, we might consider extending the gh
> interface to support them, but, again, I think we should wait a bit
> with this until things are more settled.

Okay.  I'm not actually implementing the code right now.