Re: [boost] Re: Template-based BIL IDL

From: Matthew Vogt (mattvogt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-01 23:31:25

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:37:18 -0700, "Jonathan Turkanis"
<technews_at_[hidden]> said:

> I'm sympathetic to this point of view. The reason it doesn't seem so bad
> to me
> is that only a relatively small part of coding with BIL is actually
> defining
> interfaces; the code which uses the interfaces is just ordinary C++.

Yeah, but in order to write any ordinary C++ using an interface, you
must first (mentally) parse the interface.  Yes, you won't write much
IDL, but it will be read many times...

> Do you have any suggestions for improving the macro syntax? For instance,
> do you
> like David Abrahams's suggested syntax better:
> 
>     DECLARE_INTERFACE(
>       Interface,
>       ((int)(print)(ostream&)(int))
>     );

Maybe it will grow on me :)

> > Do you have any experimental code for defining these interfaces?
> 
> I've started work on it, but it doesn't work yet.

I hope it comes together.

> > If not, do you forsee major issues in implementing them later?
> 
> I'm sure it is theoretically correct, and am optimistic that it will work
> in
> practice because it uses the same techniques as the macro-based approach.
> However I can't say for sure that it will work until I see it.

I'm glad to hear your optimism, anyway.
BTW, cool library.

Thanks,
Matt
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  Matthew Vogt
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