Re: C++ templates equivalent in GObject

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Jerry Kakol wrote:

> (and was functionally equivalent to):
>
> struct <ParameterType> _GFoo
> {
>   GObject parent;
>
>   ....
>
>   <ParameterType> bar;
>
>   ...
> };
>
> struct <ParameterType> _GFooClass
> {
>    GObjectClass parent_class;
>
>    ...
>
>    int (*bar_func) (<ParameterType bar, ...);
>
>    ...
> };
>
> , etc.
>
> Could some low level (by GObject terms) messing with GType or
> GTypeInstance help here (I'm just shooting blindly, I have no idea). I
> don't care about type safety or a full blown template implementation
> like in C++, just what the example above illustrates.

nope, you simply need C++ to do these kind of things (short of
writing your own preprocessor which would be something like
a limitedC++ to C converter).

>
> --
> Jerry Kakol <jkakol cox net>
>

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ciaoTJ