[Openmcl-devel] What are hemlock buffer bindings?

[Ron Garret]

On Jan 31, 2010, at 8:03 PM, John DeSoi wrote:

> 
> On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
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>> Hemlock buffer objects have a slot named bindings which contains a hash table.  What is this used for?  If I stick something random in there will I screw something up?
>> 
>> (I'm looking for a place to stash some revision control information on a per-document or per-buffer basis, and this is the only place I've been able to find.)
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> Hemlock has a way to define variables that can be per-buffer:
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> http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/wiki/HemlockProgrammer/HemlockVariables
> 

Am I doing this right?

(hi:defhvar "V1" "" :buffer buf)
(setf (hi::variable-value (hi:string-to-variable "V1") :buffer buf) 1)
(hi::variable-value (hi:string-to-variable "V1") :buffer buf)
(hi:hemlock-bound-p (hi:string-to-variable "V1") :buffer buf)

Seems very odd that hi:defhvar takes a string while hi::variable-value and hi:hemlock-bound-p don't, but that's the only way I've been able to get it to work.  Am I missing something?

rg