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On July 25, 2002 09:19 am, Laurence Withers wrote:
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> On Thursday 25 July 2002 15:40, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
> > The only solution I see is making the base code
> > using only void* and adding a layer for BITMAPs, SAMPLEs, etc
> > that redirect to the base with casts, which is not very very
> > nice.
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> You are right about that. But it's not such a bad thing to implement
> (quite easy if you like linked lists and vtables :-) ); the only thing
> is, it's not type-safe. Not that this is a huge problem, given the
> context.
>
> If anyone is interested, maybe I could get a patch ready?
>
You want type-unsafeness? Look at perl... *shudder* I've been playing with
making a module in C... And it looks like you get to cast every type to an
(SV *) when you want to do something a bit more complicated than normal...
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