[plt-scheme] Re: image manipulation

On Mar 25, 2004, at 1:50 PM, John Kozak wrote:

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>> This has one benefit--less duplicated C code--but two problems:
>>
>> 1) To make the scheme code "aware of" the representation mappings
>> involves either parsing GL header files or duplicating this
>> information manually.
>> 2) Scheme code that wanted to use the GL library portably would then
>> _also_ have to be "aware of" these mappings.  Bleah!
>
> Well, it's not _that_ bad: the C bit of the interface would contain
> code like:
>
>     
> scheme_add_global("silly-float-size",sizeof(GL_silly_float),mod_env);
>
> and the scheme bit would use these values to map SRFI 4 homovectors to
> SGL ones.  No _user_ code need ever know.

Yes, you could preserve (or 'reintroduce,' essentially) the separation 
at the scheme level, that's true.

john

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