Re: abstract unified interface

David Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.langbinding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Wallin <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm thinking we might need to make some decisions on the abstract
> unified interface thing since it will surely affect how everything else
> works.
>
> We need some ideas on how policies could be written language
> independently. One thing to notice here is that the conversion work will
> be done before any of the compile time generated converters get a chance
> to do anything. So I'm thinking maybe the callpolicies could get a
> chance to modify the function signature before the type_info's are
> produced.
>
> I think many policies could be expressed this way, for instance..
>
>    void f(const int*, int size);
>
> Could be transformed to:
>
>    void f(array_with_size<const int, int>);
>
> Given that the language backend has a converter registered for
> typeid(array_with_size<const int, int>), 


Seems reasonable

> which is of course somewhat of an problem.

Why?
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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