Re: Standard types in MRL
Jayakumar Muthukumarasamy ([email protected])
Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:13:59 -0400 (EDT)
>
> I am not sure that all the standard types in IDL need to be supported in MRL.
>
> I think that the application model will want to define an enumeration type
> with all the types that an application can use. In order to do so, there is
> no need to support these types in the MRL.
>
> On the other hand, we need to extend the Amulet types with wrappers for all
> the IDL types so that at run-time we can store values of these types in task
> and presentation instances.
>
Pedro,
I wasn't accurate when I said all types need to be supported. I was
refering to the primitive types like, short, unsigned short, etc. If these
are not there in MRL, then I don't see a way by which these can be modelled.
The primitive types in MRL will be used to support constants in the IDL. We
need some way of storing the value of a constant.
-jk