Re: [Plastic-devs] Casting problems (was Re: Plastic and Aladin)

[John T. <jon...@gm...>]

>> Now there's a thought, it would certainly improve interoperability.  
>> More work on the Hub end though...
>>     
>
> If I understand the problem and proposed solution correctly, this
> couldn't work without substantial changes to the standard,
> since the hub, by design, does not understand the content or
> argument list types of the messages which it forwards.  
> Hence it can't know whether the stream of <double> elements it 
> has received from a client is in fact supposed to be <int>s.  
> Its job is simply to act as a multiplexer forwarding RPC calls 
> unchanged between senders and recipients.
>
>   

Sorry - not reading ahead down the threads before replying.....I promise 
I'm not just reading Mark's posts and then resending them in my own words.

John