Re: Messaging system

[nj.lee@kiwa.co.nz (Nicholas Lee)]

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 08:54:02 +1000 (GMT+1000), you wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Hasse Schougaard wrote:
>
>> 
>> Christian Reiniger wrote:
>> > Adrian Ratnapala wrote:
>> > >> >If there was a common, free library out there, I would
>> 
>> Just curious here, but have you guys seen this???
>> 
>> http://www.bestweb.net/~rhickey/functor.html

Yeah I posted this link a while back.


>Yes, actually we have seen this, (well, some of us have anyway).
>We want to use Gtk--'s mechanism, which is very similar to the
>one described here, but a bit more elaborate (i.e more complicated but
>more powerful).


I think their are still issues with the need to derive from
Gtk_Signal_Base.  

As Rich Hickey mentions in his paper, call mix-in's impact on type.  

Consider a developer who has a 3rd party closed source library they need
to use with an event mechanism.


Nicholas





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