[fpc-devel] C++ Linking technology

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On 4/27/07, Daniël Mantione <daniel.mantione at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>
> Op Fri, 27 Apr 2007, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:
>
> > Hallo,
> >
> > Another day Florian was talking about the cppclass, a experimental
> > feature to link to c++
> >
> > I would like to know: Could someone inherit a class based on cppclass
> > with only external functions and then add to it it´s own methods and
> > fields?
> >
> > If this doesn´t exist yet, I would say it would be a good adition,
> > because then one can use the c++ classes like they are often used on
> > c++ app: By inheriting them and adding your own code.
> >
> > This is a very specific question, so I could just ask Florian
> > directly, but I guess that here everyone will have access to the
> > answer =)
>
> To be able to support such a thing you would have to implement all
> features of C++ objects into Pascal, effectively turning Pascal into C++
> with a different syntax. The proper way would be to have the C++ class
> implement a Pascal interface, so it can interoperate with Pascal code.
>

How does other languages such as Perl/Ruby/Python (for example) etc,
handle such connections ?

> Daniël


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