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Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??
"Jason Trenouth" <jason.trenouth@globalgraphics.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:45:01 -0400 (EDT), "Mark Jordan"
> <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking more along the lines of generating language bindings
> > (and the C library itself) directly from an interface/implementation
> > database. This avoids any parsing altogether and keeps everything
> > consistent; changes only have to be made in one place. I haven't
> > seen anything like this around have you?
> >
> > I was going to use IDL as the interface language, but I've decided
> > against it because it doesn't support some of the things I want to do,
> > like pre/post condtions. With database tables, I don't need to parse
> > any IDL, much simpler IMO.
>
> You'll find that most interface languages have associated databases
> already. Microsoft's IDL (MIDL) has its type library (typelib) and CORBA's
> IDL has its interface repository.
>
> If you don't care to parse CORBA IDL (or MIDL) you don't have to. You can
> connect to an interface repository that has had the application IDL loaded
> into it, and use an API ( CORBA IDL of course ) to access the structures.
Howdy Jason,
I wasn't aware that CORBA interface repositories were implemented as
a proper databases? I'm planning to use Interbase/Firebird for this bit.
I'll check out MIDL to see what it can do, thanks.
Best Regards,
Mark Jordan.
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