Re: [Quantlib-dev] STL compliant containers for XLOPER

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

Hi Slava

I join Eric in the appreciation for your proposal and second your contribution

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Eric Ehlers <eri...@na...> wrote:
> [...] we could get your classes onto the svn
> trunk for inclusion in the next release.  I would put them in new folder
> ObjectHandler/ohxl/xllcontainers in a sub-namespace.  As you note, your new
> classes can be used independently of ObjectHandler and I would definitely want
> to retain that orthogonality.

what about having a dedicated XllContainers library? Then the XLL
specialization of ObjectHandler would just use it. It seems cleaner to
me

> It would be good to get some example applications for XLL Containers, maybe
> showing the usage of the classes with and without ObjectHandler?
> [... we ] have the conversion logic in one place where it is
> reused by all platforms, for example if you serialize the Excel environment
> into a stream that can be loaded by a QuantLib C++ application on Linux.  How
> would that work if the ObjectHandler XLL and QuantLibXL were to use the XLL
> Container classes in place of the existing Excel bindings?

I second this requests as they would help understanding how beneficial
would be merging your library into OH instead of keeping it separate
and how to effectively use it without losing the "platform neutrality"

ciao -- Nando