[gmpi] Re: NAMM follow-up, some major decisions to make
- From: "Angus F. Hewlett" <angus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:35:26 +0000
Paul Davis wrote:
in my experience as a C++ programmer for about 11 years, there are two
major aspects to using a "genuine" object oriented language/toolkit:
1) implicit "this"
IMHO, implicit "this" becomes pretty significant as soon as you're
dealing with more than one type of object passed to the dispatcher /
more than one dispatcher.
However, we've already agreed to use C as the spec language. This
means that neither of the options i mention above are available.
So, for now, I will stop rambling and ask Angus what he might be
thinking of in the way of a good "object API" ...
COM is nice in a lot of ways, when used properly... it's a bit
heavyweight for our requirements, not platform-neutral*, and requires a
bit more boilerplate code than is ideal, but the fundamental idea is
sound. The idea of pure-virtual interfaces which are also directly
callable from C, with all sharing a common base-interface that provides
basic object interrogation services, is one I like a lot.
Regards,
Angus.
* the business-end of COM will compile and run just fine on anything,
but it's so loaded down with Windows-y type names and code conventions
as to be heavily off-putting to everyone else...
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