Owen Densmore wrote:
Well, will table based functionality work? .. i.e. a list of behavior
parameters?
Indeed, consider the case of the interface between C++ objects and
JavaScript in Firefox or the similar system in Windows. The common
data structure from both sides is a table of function pointers. It's
literally the vtbl for the class on the C++ side. Using operator
overloading on the C++ side, one can think of normal looking C++
expressions as just indexes into tables of functions. `+' would call
the add function, and so forth, and the table entries could be swapped
for other implementations. Meanwhile, on the JavaScript side [or insert
your favorite interpreted language here] the table is generated at
runtime, and function call table entries encapsulate the function name
in a closure, but actually always call the same interpret entry points.
Marcus
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