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Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??



"Bryn Keller" <xoltar1@home.com> wrote in message 3B5E2752.362C1032@home.com">news:3B5E2752.362C1032@home.com...
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> "Peter S. Housel" wrote:
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> > It would certainly be possible to create a tool that would parse a set of
> > C++ headers and create an 'extern "C"' shim for the public interface, which
> > could then be interfaced to other languages.  I don't know of any such tool
> > currently in existence though.
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> > Cheers,
> > -Peter S. Housel-   housel@acm.org   http://members.home.com/housel/
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> Isn't this exactly what SWIG (www.swig.org) does? Most of the languages that
> use SWIG only (or primarily) interface with C, but I know that (e.g.) wxWindows
> and Qt (both C++ GUI toolkits) are made palatable enough that languages such as
> Python, Ruby, Java, and Scheme can interface with them. How feasible would it
> be to write a SWIG binding for Dylan?

Bryn,
Hmm, it's amazing what's tucked away in obscure corners of the net!
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know it existed ;-)

Cheers,
Mark Jordan.






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