Jeff Laing:
>>> The question asked was "would it be ok if there were
>>> first-class bindings to the COCOA APIs". Not "how can you
>>> have all the flexibility of Objective-C without Objective-C"
>>> which is of course ludicrous.
>>>
>> The two are one and the same though. Cocoa uses all of the
>> flexibility of Objective-C, so to have first-class bindings to the
>> Cocoa APIs, a language must have the same level of flexibility.
>
> Yes, but the question was not "can you reimplement Cocoa in C++?". It was,
> can you bridge enough of C++ into Cocoa so that Carbon developers need not
> dip their toes into that distasteful water.
*snip*
What you seem to be describing is a C++ framework built on top of Cocoa. This
is definitely feasible. However, it doesn’t sound a lot like “first-class
bindings to the COCOA [sic] APIs”, which isn’t.
--
Jens Ayton
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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