RE: some lua questions

["Nick Trout" <nick@...>]

> From: Bryan Weingarten
> have you seen the new python ctypes library?  it's a 
> cross-platform library to call c functions directly in python 
> without needing to create an extension module or do the 
> marshalling yourself. 
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes.html

It looks interesting but its hardly "transparent". It just looks like
you're shifting the binding layer from C to Python, which albeit may be
less work and probably is more portable, but slower.

> wouldn't this be possible in lua?  or maybe a better 

I believe libFFI exists somewhere and there are struct libraries for Lua
so it is possible. I'd ask the LuaCheia team, a module to do this could
cut down on C maintainance, but then you still need binding code.


--Nick