Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??

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• Subject: Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??
• From: Bryn Keller <xoltar1@home.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
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"Peter S. Housel" wrote:

> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter S. Housel-   housel@acm.org   http://members.home.com/housel/

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

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