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Re: gcc-in-cxx: Garbage Collecting STL Containers
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> Maybe at some point then we should just stop using gengtype and just
> hand-write the walkers once.
>
> One of the reasons gengtype exists is because you can't easily have an
> abstract interface with member functions that you can force people to
> implement in C.
>
> In C++, we can.
>
> This is of course, a large change, but i'm not sure how much more work
> it really is than trying to understand gengtype and rewrite it to
> properly parse C++/support STL containers.
Hmmm, does C++0x add some type-reflection? ;)
Richard.