You know, the whole dynamic FFI world is very much seatbelts-off, which is initially quite disconcerting. Usually I rely on my distro to ensure compatibility, b

You know, the whole dynamic FFI world is very much seatbelts-off, which is initially quite disconcerting. Usually I rely on my distro to ensure compatibility, but once you start saying "this syscall gives me a pointer to memory which should be interpreted as two ints, one char, and a float, packed conventionally" you begin to realize what exactly are the interfaces between various bits on your system. For better and for worse of course. What Guile has now is the "list-all-members-in-the-struct" approach that Klock discourages. It's the difference between API and ABI compatibility. I'd like to figure out how to do the former. A