Re: [Quantlib-dev] [PATCH] Payoffs fully implemented in a foreign language via SWIG

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 21:08 +0000, Andrea wrote:
> It looks like it makes things a lot easier.
> Basically one has to export the raw C++ inheritance.
> Then swig will remove all differences between pointers, references,
> shared_ptr, wrapping them when needed.
> I think it would simplify what Quantlib-SWIG does now, where it needs
> to expose classes inheriting from shared_ptr<I> rather than I itself.

> It is very likely that the user will not notice any difference.

Ok, I see.  Yes, that would simplify the interfaces somewhat.  However,
there's the problem that shared_ptr is not supported in all the
languages we're exporting to.  

> Coming back to my original problem, unfortunately it seems that using
> shared_ptr and directors does not work (yet?) (SWIG generates invalid
> Java code). So for the time being the code I posted at the top of the
> thread is still my best solution.

Ok, I'll look at it. Thanks.

Luigi



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