Re: More cvs2svn broken in 0.17.0?

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 12:29 PM, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:

 Edward S. Marshall esm@logic.net writes:

 (warning, half-baked idea follows)

 Although, this does give me an interesting idea; a lot of functions
 have
 optional arguments (optional in the sense that the argument is NULL if
 there's nothing to be passed). Is there any way that this could be
 mapped
 to python's optional argument syntax (ie. foo(arg1, arg2=None)) in a
 semi-automated manner?

 Regarding the above: I don't think so.

Um, it specifically supports it:

4.4.8 Default/optional arguments
    SWIG supports default arguments in both C and C++ code. For example:

int plot(double x, double y, int color=WHITE);

  In this case, SWIG generates wrapper code where the default arguments
are optional in the target language. For example, this function could
be used in Tcl as follows :

% plot -3.4 7.5 # Use default value
% plot -3.4 7.5 10 # set color to 10
instead

   Although the ANSI C standard does not allow default arguments,
default arguments specified in a SWIG interface work with both C and
C++.

Note: There is a subtle semantic issue concerning the use of default
arguments and the SWIG generated wrapper code. When default arguments
are used, the default values are emitted into the wrappers and the
function is invoked with a full set of arguments. This behavior is not
100% compatible with all uses of default arguments in C++. Please
refer to the C++ chapter for further details.

In other words, you just need to move the functions you want default
arguments for into an interface file, and specify the defaults there.

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Received on Sat Oct 14 02:12:59 2006