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[gang-of-4-patterns] [ANN] doublecpp -- double dispatch in C++

From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini AT gdn.dsi.unifi.it>
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Subject: [gang-of-4-patterns] [ANN] doublecpp -- double dispatch in C++
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:27:45 +0200
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I found double dispatch quite useful in implementing many design patterns (visitor, observer, strategy,...) so I'm posting this announce here too:

Hi

I've just released doublecpp:

Doublecpp is a preprocessor for C++ that handles a new linguistic
construct for defining branches of a multi-method. The "right" branch
of such a method will be selected dynamically at run-time according to
the actual type of the object on which the method is invoked and to the
actual type of the first argument: double dispatch.

http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/doublecpp/index.html

Doublecpp is free software; you are free to use, share and modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).

Doublecpp is delivered with sources that have to be compiled. It can be
downloaded from the following site:

http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/doublecpp/doublecpp-0.2.tar.gz

Doublecpp has been developed using GNU gcc 3.2.2

You can build doublecpp also under Windows, using cygwin
(http://www.cygwin.com). If you have problems with that, you can
request the windows binaries directly to me.

IMPORTANT: you have to use a 3.x version of gcc: earlier versions have
problems handling code generated by doublecpp.

You can find the documentation in the file

http://www.lorenzobettini.it/software/doublecpp/doublecpp.ps

I look forward to receiving comments!

regards
Lorenzo

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[gang-of-4-patterns] [ANN] doublecpp -- double dispatch in C++, Lorenzo Bettini, 09/25/2003