Re: Concerns about deprecating external classes?

2018-06-24 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Sun, 24 Jun 2018, Michael Ferguson wrote: If you mean being able to refer to an external C variable which is a struct then yes. To be clear, the usual way to allow a C struct to work in Chapel code is `extern record`, which we are not talking about deprecating: Lost in translation when

Re: Concerns about deprecating external classes?

2018-06-24 Thread Michael Ferguson
Hi Damian - > If you mean being able to refer to an external > C variable which is a struct then yes. To be clear, the usual way to allow a C struct to work in Chapel code is `extern record`, which we are not talking about deprecating:

Re: Concerns about deprecating external classes?

2018-06-23 Thread Damian McGuckin
Brad, On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Brad Chamberlain wrote: It's been proposed that we deprecate our current concept of "extern classes" in the next release. This is a quick poll to see whether anyone has crucial code that makes use of them today. If you do, please let me know. If you mean