CJS:
I've been using a medium-sized C library. Most of the library
calls look something like
XXXXaction(context, arg1, arg2)
Where XXXX is the name of the library, action is the action to
take, and context is an opaque pointer defined by the library
to keep all the state related to these actions.
Is there a simple way to wrap this library so I could make
calls that look like
context.action(arg1, arg2)?
I'm hoping for something with less manual work than having to
wrap each individual function call. Especially since the types
involved in the library can be somewhat complex and require
trawling through multiple header files to find out the true
definition.
If you give context a precise type (so no void*), you can use
UFCS (uniform function call syntax) and define aliases like this:
alias context = XXXXaction;
You can define such aliases in bulk at compile-time in some way.
Bye,
bearophile
