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15:48:28
minion
lisp123, memo from beach: What I call "concrete data type" is anything data type where there is essentially only one reasonable implementation. An abstract data type is defined entirely by the operations possible on its instance, without reference to its implementation.
17:39:57
jcowan
beach: I don't follow that definition of CDTs. It looks to me like fixnum is a CDT on your account and so is float, but bignum is an ADT and so is string.
19:55:47
lisp123
stacksmith: Thanks. An alternative I found is (do-symbols (s (find-package "my-package")) (shadowing-import (find-symbol (symbol-name s) "my-package")))
19:56:08
lisp123
(If anybody thinks thats a bad idea for importing all internal symbols, let me know)
20:11:42
_death
you could have an implementation package that exports both symbols for external use and internally used symbols that you want to refer to in your tests.. then an external interface package can use it and export only the former symbols
20:12:32
lisp123
_death: Thank you!! That is genius (and solves a problem I was facing with a brute force shadowing-import)
20:14:07
White_Flame
personally, I think it's reasonable for tests to invasively use foo::bar to get at the internals of what it's testing
20:15:36
lisp123
White_Flame: Yeah, I have the same view. And I got tired of typing foo:: for every test
20:15:37
_death
I think it's ok (and not just for testing, as long as you've control of both ends), but may get a bit verbose
20:33:59
Nilby
It turns out I mostly test the external interface, but if not, it's foo:: and the essential multiple-cursors!
20:35:46
shka
lisp123: i write my tests in the same package and i think that this is fine, but you gonna need separate asdf system for tests
20:36:57
lisp123
shka: Thanks, yes I have that. I've ended up keeping the test package separate and doing the above trick to import all the symbols into it
20:37:19
_death
Nilby: indeed.. I often use package inferred systems style, so I can test functionality of internal modules since they export their symbols as external interface for internal use
20:39:18
_death
Nilby: but I did use foo::bar recently, as I have a module for visualization that needs to specialize on some classes and obtain information from their instances, and I didn't want to export those symbols
20:40:07
stacksmith
I try to keep things separate, but when it takes too much effort I remind myself that it is likely that no one else will ever see the crap I am making.
20:43:56
_death
they work very well for some (most) of my use cases.. though I did have one or two projects where a more coarse approach would've been better
20:49:38
Nilby
Many package and systems 1-to-1, but some package and systems relationship status has to be: "It's complicated."
21:31:13
kagevf
it was here: https://tfeb.github.io/ look under "Conduit packages for Common Lisp" .... might be useful for handling packages
21:38:14
papertanuki
Hi everyone! I have a quick CFFI question that I could't find on the documentation.
21:39:11
papertanuki
How do you translate a C struct that contains an array (really a pointer, and a counter) of other structs?
21:41:44
Bike
if you have a defcstruct for BoneInfo or whatnot, you can specify (:pointer bone-info) if you want, but i think cffi ignores the underlying types of pointers
21:45:37
papertanuki
So when translating using `translate-from-foreign`, is there a way to get all of the bones in a lisp array?
21:56:02
Nilby
papertanuki: You can use mem-aref in a loop on "bones" and then with-foreign-slots or foreign-slot-value of the struct pointer get the data out. The CFFI manual has decent examples.
0:06:30
jasom
papertanuki: FWIW Model doesnt' contain an array, only pointers (the two are not always the same in C).