Re: [Chicken-users] FFI c++ issue

[felix winkelmann]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:36:38 +0000, Joel Reymont <address@hidden> wrote:
> > felix winkelmann wrote:
> 
> >Since the ffi is not able to box the foo (which would result in
> >copying, and other things which may result in subtle C++
> >problems), I recommend to let bar return a pointer to foo.
> >The ffi parser does currently not support code like above.
> 
> foo& foo:bar() does work. How would I box/unbox a reference? Define a
> reference type and the same code as for a pointer?

The reference is internally handled as a pointer. It's just for convenience
to allow references. Just use it like a pointer.


cheers,
felix