Yes, exactly: you have to write little shim functions. I'm pretty sure this was what bdamm was complaining about, and I'm complaining about it too. I took your

Yes, exactly: you have to write little shim functions. I'm pretty sure this was what bdamm was complaining about, and I'm complaining about it too. I took your suggestion to be that there was some way of using the API that avoided this. There might be no better way of doing it (or maybe there might be - I have no opinion), but that wouldn't in my view automatically make the C API "remarkably excellent", "absolutely painless", nor the sort of thing that you might describe as "as easy as it is" (as were the original claims). It would just make it no more inconvenient than it has to be. Forgive me for not getting overly excited at that ;)