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Re: Multiple dispatch / multimethods??
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:30:02 -0400 (EDT), "Mark Jordan"
<Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:
> "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 not sure what you mean by proper databases, nor is there a single
implementation style. However, the key point is that the parsing phase has
been done for you and all you have to do is use an API to walk a tree.
__Jason
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