Re: [Clorb-devel] Forward references

[Lennart S. <le...@ly...>]

James Amundson wrote:
> Clorb doesn't seem to support forward references. For example, I need
> something to do simple like
>
> module Simple {
>     union ToySexpr;
>     typedef sequence<ToySexpr> list;
>     union ToySexpr switch(short) {
>         case 1:string atom_val;
>         case 2:list list_val;
>     };
> };
>
> Clorb dies on the foward reference ("union ToySexpr;"). I don't see any
> way to work around the problem without resorting to using "any".
>
> Is there any chance of getting Clorb to understand forward references?
> I would be happy to try to fix it myself if I could get a little
> direction on where to start.
>   

I think this has been fixed after the latest release. Can you try CLORB 
from the CVS repository

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clorb/

cvs -d:pserver:ano...@cl...:/cvsroot/clorb login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@cl...:/cvsroot/clorb co 
-P /clorb



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