[C++-sig] Re: Pyste suggestion for handling returns of void *

[Nicodemus]

Niall Douglas wrote:

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>On 4 Oct 2003 at 8:02, David Abrahams wrote:
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>>>This probably leaves out virtual functions and may cause problems
>>>with getting the address of overloaded methods. Still some support
>>>for void * returns is better than none.
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>>This isn't what I'd call "support for void* returns".  We should
>>return and accept void*s as opaque pointers.
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>No it's a nasty hack to temporarily fix a problem.
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Why you think that? In your proposed solution, you wanted to ignore the 
returning void*, which I think it's worse, at least as an generic 
solution... you can always ignore the opaque pointer that is returned 
after all.

> I agree opaque 
>pointers should support void * but AFAICS the code currently doesn't 
>support them. I thought you can specialise a template for <void> or 
>something?
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Hmm, I didn't know that.

Another solution that meets your idea (ignoring the returning void*) is 
generating wrapper functions, but that's certainly more work.