Re: [luabind] Returning reference to abstract class

[Arvid N. <c9...@cs...>]

Hi Morten!

On Dec 21, 2005, at 17:07, Mor...@se... wrote:
> First of all, thanks for a marvellous library: I'm amazedat the  
> magic it does!
>
> Now to the problem: I have a member function returning a const- 
> reference to an abstract class. When binding that function, I get  
> compiler errors telling that it cannot instantiate an abstract  
> class. However, that shouldn't be necessary becasue it is a  
> reference that us returned. Below is a condensed example and the  
> resulting compiler output  (Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003)
> [...]
> I just discovered that the code compiles if GetA returns a non- 
> const reference!

I've checked in a fix for this to cvs head. Please try it and let me  
know if it solved the problem. I assume you were using cvs head  
already, right?

> Another thing: Have you considered writing a paper about the design  
> of lubind? It would sure be interesting to know it works under the  
> hood.

No, we haven't. We don't really have the time to do that.

--
Arvid Norberg