Re: WARNING! New experimental feature in the development version!

[Brian G <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/25/26 11:00, Fabien Bodard wrote:
> Le mer. 25 mars 2026 à 18:34, Benoît Minisini 
> <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>     Le 25/03/2026 à 18:33, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
>     > Le 25/03/2026 à 18:02, Brian G a écrit :
>     >> Looking at the new code you added,
>     >>
>     >> Would it now be possible to make things such as public
>     structures into
>     >> a now global asset, where if defined once, can be accessed
>     anywhere
>     >> within the app?
>     >>
>     >> looks like the gbc_info interface may allow that type of
>     extension/
>     >> globalization. such that one would not have to copy paste
>     structures
>     >> into each file they are used in and not have to incur the
>     overhead of
>     >> using a class interface to make they global.
>     >>
>     >
>     > I'm not 100% sure, maybe.
>     >
>     > It needs the structures to be exported to the information file, the
>     > inheritance must be ignored, if two declarations of the same
>     structure
>     > are found, an error must be raised if they are not strictly the
>     same,
>     > and finally the structure must be available to the classes where
>     it is
>     > not declared. A lot of work for sure...
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     >
>
>     So not immediately. At the moment, the two pass compilation is
>     optional,
>     it's there just for additional compilation checks, not for a new
>     behaviour in the language.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     -- 
>     Benoît Minisini.
>
>
> For sure it's a thing that miss a lot to make bindings easily.
>
> with something like that you can declare structures once in a kind of 
> header public module.
>
> --
> Fabien Bodard

I was thinking the same thing would be great!

--
~~~~ Brian

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