Re: [pygccxml-development] Proper overload resolution

[Benoit L. <ben...@mo...>]

Roman Yakovenko wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Benoit Leveau
> <ben...@mo...> wrote:
>> I already took a look at that page and:
>> - solution 1 doesn't work if you want to bind all the functions to one
>> unique alias: __setitem__
> 
> Ok.
> 
>> - solution 2 & 3 don't change the fact that only one of the two functions
>> will be called (as bool and int can be converted to each other, it's always
>> the last one exposed that will be called)
> 
> You are right.
> 
>> - solution 4 is what I was mentionning in my message, but it doesn't seem
>> py++ can generate that code yet. Or does it?
> 
> No, it doesn't.  I guess you have no choice, but to implement that
> last method by yourself :-(
Ok, that's what I thought!
And I guess there is no way to "register" some Python code to be 
executed when the module is loaded, it must be done in the __init__.py 
file, right?

> The only help, you get from Py++, is warning "W1010". You can use
> "x.readme()" functionality to check whether set of functions have such
> problem or not. You can use that functionality as assert for the
> "solution 4".
Good, I didn't know a warning was issued in that case.

>>From my experience patching boost, creates a huge headache. This is
> exactly the reason, why I migrated indexing suite v2 to be header only
> library.

Thanks!