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Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script
Date 2017-05-03 17:22 +0100
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 4:55:28 PM UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 1:41:28 PM UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> >> fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> I think you prefer to talk in metaphors but I can't help because I still
>> >> don't know what "captured by C" means.  Showing me the output of the
>> >> script does not help with that.
>> >> 
>> > I means that the C program invokes the Perl interpreter on the Perl script,
>> > and then reads the value of a Perl variable for manipulation as a C object.
>> 
>> Malcolm, how do you know what fred flintstone means?
>> 
> fred flintstone speaks English.
> I've also faced similar problems, and used similar words.

Why don't you help out with an answer then?

> Ben was possibly misled because "capture" is a term used with a
> specific meaning for lambda functions and closures.

No, it was clear the meaning had nothing to do with that.  It's
obviously about somehow getting a Perl number into a C floating-point
object, but there are so many ways to go about that (and most are not
topical here) that is seemed daft to try to answer without knowing the
real goal.

-- 
Ben.

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obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-04-30 04:36 -0700
  Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-30 14:48 +0200
    Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-01 02:25 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-01 08:46 -0700
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-03 02:12 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 11:48 +0100
  Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-30 16:16 +0100
    Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-01 04:18 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-01 13:41 +0100
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 05:10 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 15:00 +0100
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-03 08:55 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 09:02 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 17:22 +0100
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 01:43 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:06 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-09 00:35 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-05-09 13:59 +0200
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 02:45 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 04:39 -0700
                solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-09 02:43 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-09 15:06 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-10 01:03 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-10 11:18 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-12 02:26 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-12 11:51 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-12 03:49 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Manfred <invalid@invalid.add> - 2017-05-10 23:21 +0200
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-10 16:23 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 15:57 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-11 18:57 -0400
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 18:38 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 18:46 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-11 21:11 -0400
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-12 01:51 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-14 23:49 -0400
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-09 07:46 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 09:06 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-05-03 17:02 +0000
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 01:51 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2017-05-04 18:21 +0200
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 03:52 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-08 08:38 -0400
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:14 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-05-08 12:17 -0400
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:26 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-05-08 11:02 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 11:39 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-09 07:16 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 08:18 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-10 00:29 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-10 05:26 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-08 18:20 +0100

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