Re: [Swig-dev] Re: [Chicken-users] A more detailed plea for help with FFI...

[William S Fulton]

John Lenz wrote:
> On 12/15/04 13:58:12, Ed Watkeys wrote: 
>
> > While I have you here, I was wondering if there might be a way to use 
> > SWIG to generate Chicken procedure names with characters other than 
> > [0-9A-Za-z-] in them. Specifically, I'd like to stick some colon in the 
> > names e.g. "data-type:operation-name". Is there a way to do this in 
> > SWIG?
>
>
> It should be possible with the %rename directive.
>
> I just tried
> %rename(a:b) func;
> and SWIG gets Error: Syntax error in input.
>
> To the SWIG devs, is there a way to get rename to accept colons?
> the chicken validIdentifier function accepts : in names, but it
> seems that parser.y is using idstring
>
> line 1982: | rename_namewarn LPAREN idstring RPAREN string SEMI

%rename("a:b") func;

But you might have to deal with some invalid identifier warnings then.

William