Re: [Caml-list] a design problem requiring downcasting? (long)

[Remi VANICAT <vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

nadji@noos.fr writes:

> Hi,
> 
> If I understood your problem, Jacques Garrigue has shown a way
> to allow "safe" downcast, that is to say that if you can't downcast you
> cleanly get an exeption. You are required to register your class for
> all the downcasts you wants, and it will work only for them (i.e. if
> you don't register you can't downcast). This is the "memo" class
> in the code below.
> Following this idea, your simulation manager has to define all the interfaces it
> will be using, and the simulations have to register themselves before
> beeing used.
> Code follows :
> 

It is what my hweak library is doing. the only difference is that I
use my own Hashtbl with weak pointer (so object that are in my memo
object can be collected by the GC).
-- 
Rémi Vanicat
vanicat@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~vanicat
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