Re: Registries [2]

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

> At 10:20 2003-07-28, Daniel Wallin wrote:
>>At 01:10 2003-07-28, David Abrahams wrote:
>>>Oh.  The implicit imports I thought we'd handle by having a global
>>>converter registration chain for any type and simply tacking it onto
>>>the end of each extension's local chain as part of the initialization
>>>of the local registration.
>>
>>Right, but this seems to imply the same implementation that I suggested.
>>Because even if module Y is initialized after module X, module X needs
>>to know about the converters module Y exposes. So the initialization of
>>module Y needs to add converters do module X's registry. Right?
>
> I think I misinterpreted this, did you mean linking the actual chains together
> rather than adding converters from the global chain to the local ones?

Yes, I meant essentially that all local chains for a type would share
a tail: the corresponding global chain.

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



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