How bad of an idea is it to pass variable-capturin...
# kotlin-natives
serebit
04/15/2021, 4:42 PMHow bad of an idea is it to pass variable-capturing lambdas as StableRefs to C callbacks? i.e. pass my callback function as the data pointer, and make the static C function unwrap and call it. Example in thread.
serebit
04/15/2021, 4:48 PMd
Dominaezzz
04/15/2021, 5:00 PMHaha, fairly certain this was why StableRef was introduced. I do this all the time.
Dominaezzz
04/15/2021, 5:01 PMAs long as you're not calling the callback in another thread, there's nothing to worry about.
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Clocks
04/15/2021, 9:35 PMAre you doing another GTK library for kotlin?
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serebit
04/16/2021, 2:28 AMNope, I'm drawing inspiration from yours to improve my direct C bindings! I didn't really feel like pulling in an entire lib, and yours is still experimental, but it's solved some problems that I was struggling with initially.
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