Re: [Corelinux-develop] Thought, parser, template

[Hans - D. <dul...@eg...>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Frank V. Castellucci wrote:

> Hans - Dulimarta wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Frank V. Castellucci wrote:
> >
> > > Hans,
> > >
> > > As per previous conversation (corelinux, clfw, clfll), did you see
> > > anything of interest? Is there something you want to do that isn't on
> > > the list that makes sense for the direction of the libraries?
> > >
> >
> > My exploration in corelinux in not yet comprehensive. It is a new world to
> > me, let alone the framework (clfw) and the library loader (clfll). All
> > these three tracks are interesting to me, but I'll continue my exploration
> > in the corelinux world first.
> >
> > In the task list I found that #11180 and #11325 are unassigned.
> > I'll take care of #11325 first, it has been past due for > 1 year :-)
>
> Which one is 11325 again? I can't seem to get it on the web.
>

Task ID 11325: libcl++ implementation of Factory Method Pattern (Req 5097)

> Couple of things:
>
> A templated declaration is useless until it has it's types defined, only
> then is it a concrete class/object. The only way I have ever gotten
> templated classes to work with generating their own meta-information was
> to first create the concrete entity, and then the macro.
>
> The whole idea of what Christophe is doing would be to do away with the
> meta-macros, and instead use a more expressive and easy to read form for
> which we generate the needed constructs. If you think about it, the
> metatype/metaclass itself is mostly a collection of dictionaries
> (relationships, data-members, methods, etc.).
>
> The road into #define SOME_MACRO1() .... SOME_MACRO[n]() is exactley
> what I avoided with the way I constructed the first round, NO LIMITS!!!
> But, as you can see, it means more work on the developers part.
>

With this parser work on the way, are we going to adapt a similar
approach to that of Qt with their 'Meta Object Compiler' (moc)?

Perhaps I missed something here because during the initial traffic of
MetaClass discussion sometimes back last year, my focus was somewhere
else.

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