On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'm pondering, once again, more things with the Postgres interface. > In this case I need to pass in arrays of ints (and floats, I suppose) > and arrays of char pointers. My first thought is to have a new type > that converts an Array (or something like it) to a C array, either of > ints or char pointers. That'd solve my problem quite nicely. But... > that begs the question--is it going too far? Is this the sort of > stuff that ought to have custom C interfaces for, rather than adding > in Yet More Types to the NCI interface? Speaking personally, being able to automatically convert a Parrot array to an array of ints or floats would be very useful, but that's because I do fairly hard-core number crunching in my day job. What are the arguments againtst putting something like this in the NCI interface?
Simon
