From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: Joel Reymont <joelr1@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] c++ class to ocaml class or module?
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:11:49 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <825BF6CA-5158-4669-BB57-FE751CBC5479@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EEDCA6F3-63E3-4803-88E7-963B6821D297@gmail.com>
On 2010/12/29, at 8:26, Joel Reymont wrote:
>> I would only suggest making the extra effort of combining these
>> functions into classes if sutyping is actively used.
>
> This is a large surface C++ API where I need to subclass to provide callbacks.
>
> For example, the initialization arguments to the "engine" class are grouped into a "parameters" class so I need to create the parameters object in C++ and then individually set the members.
As this doesn't seem to involve subtyping, I would suggest just
putting your parameters into an ocaml record, and have a class on the
C++ side that accesses the fields of such a record.
Keep the FFI as simple as possible.
If you need more structure on the ocaml side, you can always add it later.
Jacques Garrigue
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2010-12-28 23:15 Jacques Garrigue
2010-12-28 23:26 ` Joel Reymont
2010-12-29 0:11 ` Jacques Garrigue [this message]
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2010-12-28 21:34 Joel Reymont
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