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Re: general c++ question
From: |
Shai Ayal |
Subject: |
Re: general c++ question |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:43:31 +0300 |
On 8/31/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29-Aug-2007, John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> | On 29-Aug-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:
> |
> | | This way you will loose the easiness of having them automatically
> | | generated in the macro. But it is better and more consistent.
> |
> | Many of them do not force any other action. They are simply of the
> | form
> |
> | PROP = val;
> |
> | so they can be generated by the macro. Of course we will need a
> | separate macro that does not generate the set_PROP function. Let me
> | take a look at doing at least one or two classes this way.
>
> After spending some time on this, I think we need something more than
> the C preprocessor to do the job. I'm working on a patch that will
> move graphics.h to graphics.h.in and then use an AWK or Perl script to
> generate graphics.h. The properties declarations in the graphics.h.in
> file will be something like
>
> BEGIN_PROPERTIES
> graphics_handle currentfigure S
> octave_value visible
> END_PROPERTIES
>
> The properties will be specified with
>
> TYPE PROPNAME FLAGS
>
> The optional FLAGS field can be some combination of characters that
> tell the script whether to declare the field "mutable", emit a
> definition and/or declaration for the set_PROPNAME and get_PROPNAME
> functions, etc. The script will only generate the simple ones
> automatically (the ones for which the body of the function is just
> "PROPNAME = val;" or "return PROPNAME;"). The others will have to be
> written by hand. With this approach, I think we can also
> automatically generate the set and get functions that work with the
> names of the fields. There are a few more details to work out, but I
> think I can have something checked in by next week.
Looks good to me. Until the patch is in I will assume the interface to
c++ stays like you outlined before in this thread using the
get_PROPNAME methods. Hopefully this won't change
Shai
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- Re: general c++ question, Shai Ayal, 2007/08/29
- Re: general c++ question, John W. Eaton, 2007/08/29
- Re: general c++ question, Shai Ayal, 2007/08/29
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