Otherwise attempts to use it on some platforms cause the following error
`error: initializer element is not a compile-time constant`
when attempting to use the corresponding `JANET_REG`.
By take and releasing locks twice per channel in the case where nothing
is reading, there was an opportunity for ev/select to hang in the
multithreaded case. Also silence valgrind/helgrind errors.
Like getcstring, but operates on a byteview.
When writing bindings (i.e what capi.c is primarily used for), it's
common to want to accept a buffer *or* a string rather than just
a string.
For this, a byteview is perfect (and why not accept keywords while
you're at it?).
However, there's no built-in function for getting a cstring out of
a byteview, this adds one.
This also reformulates getcstring to be an edge-case of getcbytes
(simply adding an explicit check for stringness).
This turns splices that are ignored into compiler errors. Other
alternatives here should also be considered, for example making this
a compiler warning rather than an error. For example, the latest
spork as of a3ee63c137ee3234987dbbca71b566994ff8ae8c has an error of this
kind, but the resulting program does work correctly.
Also disallow splice propagation - code of the
form (+ 1 (do ;[2 3 4]) 5).
These now have semantic menaings that are pretty difficult to
work around. Code that tries to maniuplate user8 and user9 signals
right now may be affected
When peg/replace or peg/replace-all are given a function to serve as the text
replacement, any captures produced by the PEG are passed as additional
arguments to that function.
Functions will be invoked with the matched text, and their result will be
coerced to a string and used as the new replacement text.
This also allows passing non-function, non-byteviewable values, which will be
converted into strings during replacement (only once, and only if at least
one match is found).
