Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?

• To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
• Subject: Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
• From: Rob Myers <robmyers@mac.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:52:15 +0100
• In-Reply-To: <9jn76l$3s3$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>
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On Wednesday, July 25, 2001, at 08:45  pm, Mark Jordan wrote:

> It would be cool to be able to compile C header files into dylan
> interface libraries automatically.

Melange will do this for Gwydion, and when Pidgin is complete it should 
be usable for FD as well.

> It would be even cooler to compile
> C++ header files into dylan interface libraries, but I guess the 
> differences
> are probably a bit much.

It's not this that is the problem, it's linking to the C++ object code, 
which is a nightmare in any language (even third-party C++).

>  IBM's SOM might have been useful
> since it supported inheritance, unlike COM.

COM and CORBA have the mindshare, whatever the advantages of SOM.

- Rob.

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