[GUI] Example: Binding C++ to Haskell using the ffi

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

David Sankel <camio at yahoo.com> wrote,

> for the ffi people:
> 
> Has any though gone into cplusplus?  If so, how would
> it interface?  Would stubs on the c++ side be
> generated or would it use the code directly.

Interfacing in a clean and comprehensive way to OO languages
is hard.  For a discussion of some of the problems wrt to
typing, see

  http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Papers/oo-haskell/

AFAIK, nobody is currently actively working on a FFI
extension for C++ or Java.

Cheers,
Manuel