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

[Mark T. <m.b...@br...>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, John Taylor wrote:

> 
> >> 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

and I promise I'm not taking advantage of John's holiday to fake 
postings from his address.

Mark

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