00:00 <hightower2> or rather, can call it, but only in one arrangement of the ** argument

00:03 <oprypin> hightower2, https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/2651

00:03 <oprypin> the discussion seems off point entirely?

00:04 <hightower2> will try to add something

11:04 <FromGitter> <3n-k1> compling this in 0.35.1 fails ⏎ ⏎ ```code paste, see link``` ⏎ ⏎ `Error: fun redefinition with different signature (was `fun dlopen(file : ::Pointer(Char), mode : Int) : ::Pointer(Void)` at /var/lib/snapd/snap/crystal/397/share/crystal/src/lib_c/x86_64-linux-gnu/c/dlfcn.cr:18:3)` ... [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=5ffadf2dfb85d46e04d22d35]

11:04 <FromGitter> <3n-k1> oh it's already defined

11:04 <FromGitter> <3n-k1> i missed the "cr" and thought it was just "c" :p

18:00 <FromGitter> <watzon> Yeah unfortunately you can't overwrite lib definitions

19:54 <FromGitter> <Daniel-Worrall> Why unfortunately? What's the problem with just calling the original one?

20:01 <FromGitter> <watzon> If the original one is poorly defined it could take waiting for a PR to get merged before you can move past it

20:59 <FromGitter> <Daniel-Worrall> Hm, can you give an example on how a binding could be poorly defined?

20:59 <FromGitter> <Daniel-Worrall> I haven't done any C bindings

21:19 <FromGitter> <watzon> It's pretty easy to mistakenly put incorrect types on a C binding. Or another pretty common thing is to use a `Void*` as a type if you don't want to / don't need to define the corresponding struct, but if someone else did want that struct in their library and wanted all methods that accept or return that struct to have the proper definition there's currently no way to do that besides copy/pasting all of the lib

21:19 <FromGitter> ... definitions into your own project.

21:20 <FromGitter> <watzon> But if you're relying on other things inside of the other project you can't do that, because you'd once again be redefining them

21:29 <FromGitter> <Daniel-Worrall> sweet. gotcha. ty

21:30 <FromGitter> <watzon> No problem. It's an issue I've had a few times lol