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Re: Functional Developer UNICODE support + source?
"Gail Zacharias" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 3b5e0041.114203604@news.erols.com">news:3b5e0041.114203604@news.erols.com...
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:48:51 -0700, "Mark Jordan"
> <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:
> >I'd ask for the rules, but the complex job of writing Dylan CFFI's and
> >no unicode has put me off using Dylan at all. What I really need is
> >a CPPFFI to interface to existing C++ class libraries. Any ideas on
> >how this might be done?
>
> We're definitely aware that the lack of unicode is a big hole that's
> high priority to fix. As is C++ support -- the recommended approach
> is to use COM. It's not ideal, but direct C++ interoperability is
> really an impossible problem for any language that's not C.
Gail,
Good to hear you're onto the UNICODE problem. I hadn't
thought of the COM approach, I'll mull over it some ;-)
It would be cool to be able to compile C header files into dylan
interface libraries automatically. It would be even cooler to compile
C++ header files into dylan interface libraries, but I guess the differences
are probably a bit much. IBM's SOM might have been useful
since it supported inheritance, unlike COM.
Cheers,
Mark.
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