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Subject: | Re: [Fwd: RE: EPICS base V4: iocCore database] |
From: | Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> |
To: | Ralph Lange <[email protected]> |
Cc: | Jeff Hill <[email protected]>, Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>, Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>, Eric Norum <[email protected]>, Bob Dalesio <[email protected]> |
Date: | Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:37:04 +0100 |
On Monday 21 February 2005 16:44, Ralph Lange wrote: > Jeff Hill writes: > > [...] > > system. > > o Data access is more fool proof because it uses overloaded > > functions instead of a data type code and a void pointer. > > o We can generate C and Java bindings for data access as needed. > > Is that enough? While for C it seems feasible - especially for Java > there seems to be a need for a genuine Java implementation of things (as > with CA). This might not be easy if the design depends on features that > are available only for C++. Apart from what Jeff has answered, I remember darkly that extending Java with parametric polymorphism has been on the agenda, and I know that there exists an implementation of such a thing, called Generic Java. See http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/gj/ for details. I wonder if some of you have more recent news. Ben