From: "Stanley R. Allen" <s_allen@hso.link.com>
Subject: Re: Call for ACE participation
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32667D44.41C6@hso.link.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct17.073937.1@eisner
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> The method you describe (try for derived types, but skip them in
> cases where they cause trouble) seems appropriate to me, but was
> obviously not used in the Ada bindings I have needed so far.
>
Speaking of which... why not use private types in your thin binding?
I've seen this technique used before -- an old Xlib binding defined
all of the basic X resource identifiers (Atom, Font, Bitmap, etc) as
private types which internally were derived from Integer. It was
nice (certainly it was the intent of the X consortium, even though
their language did not support the concept), and it was still thin.
--
Stanley Allen
s_allen@hso.link.com
(281) 280-4445
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-08 0:00 Call for ACE participation Oliver E. Cole
1996-10-13 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen [this message]
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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