- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:17:06 -0600
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Jonathan Watt <jwatt@jwatt.org>, www-svg@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > Most languages of interest support either argument defaulting, or > overloading based on number of arguments. But there's no way to generate function overloads from that IDL. That is, the IDL does not express the fact that the arguments are optional, so any sort of system that creates automated language bindings (say C++ header files in Gecko's case) from the IDL will not be able to handle optional arguments. -Boris
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