On 9/18/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 18.09.2006, at 20:55, Stephen Deasey wrote: > it's the explicit handle management that's making > things different. Low level C APIs just don't map directly into C. What C API's ?? Ns_ProxyGet Ns_ProxyPut Ns_ProxyEval are the only API's that C programmer might use. They are perfectly symetric and most simple. You Ns_ProxyGet a proxy, then you Ns_ProxyEval something in it (possibly many times) and then you Ns_ProxyPut it back. No locking. What could be simpler than that?
I mean that Ns_ProxyGet() might be appropriate for C programmers, but that doesn't mean that ns_proxy get is for Tcl programmers. It's not just about level of difficulty either. Mapping the low level C APIs directly seems to add a lot of difficulty, because you have to take account of the Tcl environment and all the crazy things that you just don't allow in the C API.
