On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 1:02 AM, beo wulf <
beowulf@intamp.com> wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> I just tried Luabind + lua 5.2 -- doesn't compile (due to function
> environments, which are not replaced with lexical environments). Any plans
> to port SLB to work with lua 5.2?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Jose Luis Hidalgo
> <
joseluis.hidalgo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi starwing,
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:23 PM, starwing <
weasley.wx@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Does SLB support function overload? it's a useful feature.
>> >
>>
>> Mmm... sorry, but no. The problem is lua type marshaling with C++
>> types, there are many ways a type can be "converted" from lua to a C++
>> function/method signature. Overloading could be possible for different
>> number of arguments, though, but no for different signatures with the
>> same number of arguments, and I didn't want to support partial
>> overloading.
>>
>> BTW, the search for the proper method to call will add a significant
>> overhead, SLB is meant to be as faster as possible, near to a
>> hand-coded wrapper. What I usually do with overloading is register
>> each function with a different name in lua, which is not as handy as
>> overload support, but it works.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> JL.
>>
>> PS: I'm working on registering accessors to instances' attributes,
>> but, I'm not sure about how use it from lua properly, do you have any
>> insights?
>>
>> --
>> Jose L. Hidalgo Valiño (PpluX)
>> ----
http://www.pplux.com ----
>>
>
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