Converting iso-4217-currencies.scm to C?

[Alan Jenkins]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
>
>   
>> Right now we have a scheme -> C generator that generates a list of 3000 
>> function calls. I think Alan's proposal was to change this into a generator 
>> that generates a C array with 3000 entries, and writing some simple looping 
>> code that loops over this array. In effect, I think this isn't much of a 
>> difference (meaning Alan's time can probably be spent on more important 
>> things instead), but if Alan would like to submit a patch, I'd probably agree 
>> to commit this.
>>     
>
> That seems relatively silly, IMHO.  Why have scheme generate a
> C array?  Why not just encode the list in the C array in the first
> place?
>
> I.e., I can imagine something like:
>
> typedef struct {
>   const char* fullname;
>   const char* unitname;
>   const char* partname;
>   const char* namespace;
>   const char* mnemonic;
>   const char* exchange_code;
>   unsigned    parts_per_unit;
>   unsigned    smallest_fraction;
> } GNCCurrencyDef;
>
> static GNCCurrencyDef gncISOCurrencies[] = {
>  { "Afghanistan Afghani (old)", "afghani", "pul", "ISO4217", "AFA", "004", 100, 100 }, // through 2003-01-02
>  { "Afghanistan Afghani", "afghani", "afghani", "ISO4217", "AFN", "971", 1, 1 }, // from 2002-10-07
>  ...
> };
>
> Alan, is this what you had in mind?
>   

Yes. I think Christian's right so I'll leave it alone. But you're
welcome to take the idea :).

Regards
Alan