Re: [Swig-user] lazy evaluation, templates

[Nitro <ni...@dr...>]

> I'm afraid that SWIG doesn't do automatic template instantiation yet, so
> a %template is required for each template.

I wonder why there is no automatic template instantiation in swig. Are  
there any peculiar difficulties regarding automatic template  
instantiation? Or is it more because nobody has tried/really wanted it so  
far?
I can see that you wouldn't want to have such a feature turned on globally  
(code bloat), but it would certainly be nice to have. Is there a single  
entry point somewhere in swig which is called when a template invocation  
happened somewhere? If yes, then it would probably be easy to hook swig  
there and to issue the necessary %template statements to generate the  
necessary code. If there's no such a point, where would one have to look  
for starting this?
Second, would it be possible to generate the necessary %template  
statements by looking into swig's xml output?

-Matthias