On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Bart Janssens <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having some trouble adapting CxxWrap to the new constructor syntax (as
> opposed to adding call(::Type{...) methods in 0.4). The error is equivalent
> to the following pure Julia example:
>
> type MT{T}
> msg::String
> end
>
> julia> MT{Float64}() = MT{Float64}("float")
> WARNING: static parameter Float64 does not occur in signature for Type at
> REPL[67]:1.
> The method will not be callable.
Follow the depwarn
julia> type MT{T}
msg::String
end
julia> call(::Type{MT{Float64}}) = MT{Float64}("float")
WARNING: deprecated syntax "call(::Type{MT{Float64}}, ...)".
Use "(::Type{MT{Float64}})(...)" instead.
>
> And indeed:
>
> julia> MT{Float64}()
> ERROR: MethodError: no method matching MT{Float64}()
>
> The old syntax still works:
> julia> call(::Type{MT{Float64}}) = MT{Float64}("float")
> julia> MT{Float64}()
> MT{Float64}("float")
>
> Is there any way around this? Wrapping C++ template types requires
> specifying the template types in the constructor for all compiled-in types.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bart
