Re: [Caml-list] Interface between Ocaml and C++

[Eray Ozkural <exa@kablonet.com.tr>]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 16:36, art yerkes wrote:
> In my experience, the C++ and ocaml type systems are different enough that
> determining specializations from caml code won't work well.
>
> Consider that:
>
> std::set<const char *>
> std::set<char [18]>
> std::set<std::string>
>
> are all different specializations of std::set on various representations of
> string in C++.  The syntax to choose among them may not be easy for a user
> to write and keep track of.

I agree. What's worse, these combinatorial types can accept only C++ types as 
parameters. How to reliably specify that in ocaml client code, it's almost 
impossible to know...

Maybe SWIG's approach is a good middleground then? But it makes me wonder, why 
should I want to use C++ stdlib if I have ocaml? >:-)

The alternative I thought was a syntax extension to handle it for class and 
function templates. But I don't think it's going to work out, either. 

Regards,

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