Well, I can understand the sentiment, but whilst I said C, it’s actually modern C++ which is approaching lisp with every new standard IMO. I’m using ECL in an *extremely* overkill capacity to to act as “smart” config files and to run a simple REPL for the user to play around with configuring the application’s output how they want (rather than being yet another application that defines a new language lacking in logic for its interactive interface), thus all major computations are passed back to C++, so I’d rather be able to rapidly traverse the trees to extract the commands input by the user.
Anyhow, here’s the solution: I just found that enable-smallcons is on by default (for some major performance gains when I looked into it). In this scenario, there’s a set of macros ECL_CONS_PTR, ECL_CONS_CAR etc. defined in object.h to access the cons pointers directly, not sure how I missed this earlier, but at least I’ve found it now (hopefully the info will also show up in the mailing list archive in a web search if anyone else needs it). Cheers! > On 30 Jul 2015, at 00:11, Pascal J. Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com> > wrote: > > Chris Osborne <chris.osbo...@gmx.com> writes: > >> Am I missing something obvious here or do I just have to use the cl >> functions in C to access elements of what is essentially lisp’s >> simplest data type? > > You wouldn't want random C code to fuck with your data structures, would > you? > > Don't write C code! > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a > dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to > keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ecls-list mailing list > Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
