Re: [Chicken-users] extension of __declare(substitute, "..; ...") syntax?

[felix]

Daniel B. Faken wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm looking to convert some imported C functions' names to lower-case.  
> For example, glLoadMatrix -> gl-load-matrix.
>   I haven't been able to find a way to do this with the 'substitute' 
> syntax, because (AFAIK) it only allows back-references, so I can't switch 
> the case short of doing something like
> __declare(substitute, "([a-z])A;\1a")
> __declare(substitute, "([a-z])B;\1b")
> __declare(substitute, "([a-z])C;\1c")
>  ....
>
>   I tracked this back to the implementation of string-substitute (in 
> pcre.scm), and I didn't see any simple way to do this.
>
>   Thoughts?  Should I implement a more general method?

If you just want all converted to lowercase, then compile
with the `-case-insensitive' option. This will automatically
treat all FFI-introduced names as lowercase.
(this feature is pretty new, you might have to use the
current CVS version)


cheers,
felix