[Xapian-devel] Bindings and overloading

[James Aylett]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 05:53:44PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:

> > Since Python supports overloading, I can't think of any solution to
> > this other than maintaining two different xapian.i files, one with the
> > overloading renamed away. This isn't pleasant - does anyone have an
> > alternative suggestion that would avoid this?
> 
> How about a single xapian.i, but use "#ifdef SWIGPYTHON" so it sees different
> parts?  There's something similar with SWIGGUILE already.

I suppose so. There aren't a huge number of conflicts ... #ifdef
SWIG_OVERLOADING might be better, and the target languages can define
that in util.i if they want.

J

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