Re: FFI (was Re: Development/Production versions (was RE: CVS))

[Leo Razoumov <lrazoumov@qualcomm.com>]

>>>>> "MF" == Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu> writes:
    MF> Depending on how you want to use a C++ library, deriving new subclasses
    MF> within Scheme may not be important. 

I agree with this. Very often a project can be better served by a native
language subclassing in the C/C++ library rather then within Scheme. 
One of the reasons might be a vastly different resource management between C/C++ GUI
libraries (Xt/Motif, Qt) and Scheme which makes native subclassing easy and
Scheme one a tricky undertaking.

Certainly such type of subclassing within Scheme is a low priority stuff.

thanks,
-- Leo

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