If it works on both JRuby and ruby-ffi, create a spec for it (to
ensure it doesn't get broken in future), then we'll call it officially
public.

i.e. I can't see much reason to not make it public.

On 20 May 2010 03:42, Jeremy Voorhis <jvoorhis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm working on a project where I generate both an FFI::Struct and an LLVM
> struct from the same description. It's been convenient to create the struct
> like so:
>   klass = Class.new(FFI::Struct)
>   klass.layout(...)
> This conveniently avoids devising a way to pass data into the scope of the
> class definition from the enclosing scope, but I'm having a little cognitive
> dissonance. Should FFI support this usage, or am I abusing the api?
> Thanks,
> Jeremy