Re: Smob documentation

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj-pc.nada.kth.se> writes:

> I realize that I have too many tasks to do before release, considering
> the amount of time I can spend on Guile.  This is a request for help
> to complete this change.  Here's what needs to be done:
> 
> 1. Someone needs to modify the section about smobs in data-rep.texi
>    and modify the code in doc/example according to the description
>    below.  (The description below is very rudimentary.  It should of
>    course not be copied verbatim into the manual.)
> 
> 2. Someone needs to replace all calls to scm_newsmob with
>    scm_make_smob_type and scm_set_smob_xxx in libguile and modify the
>    smob constructors to use SCM_NEWSMOB.  While doing this, one should
>    of course try to use the default mark and print functions if this
>    is possible without removing functionality.
> 
>    arbiters.c, async.c and regex-posix.c has already been converted.
>    Look there to see what it's about.
> 
> Who can supply this?

I don't mind doing this if nobody else wants the piece-- I can have it
done by the end of next weekend -- June 27th.  I assume a patch relative
to the anonymous CVS would be fine?

Greg