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Re: New smob interface
- To: Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de
- Subject: Re: New smob interface
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se>
- Date: 24 May 1999 01:55:10 +0200
- Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se>, jimb@red-bean.com, guile@cygnus.com
- Cc: mdj@nada.kth.se
- References: <199905231749.TAA09627@mdj.nada.kth.se> <m10lfhY-000H3vC@debian>
Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> Mikael Djurfeldt writes:
> > Before release, it is necessary to make sure that smobs and ports get
> > proxy classes in Goops. To be able to create proxy classes, Goops
> > needs to know the name of a smob type, but the old interface for
> > creation of smob types didn't specify a name.
> >
> > Also, the old smob interface feels unnecessarily complicated.
>
> Will it then be possible to have more than 255 smob types?
The new *interface* allows for >255 types. The current
*implementation* doesn't.