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From: kpt@ibism.UUCP (Kevin Tyson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.idl
Subject: C++ extensions to IDL
Keywords: C++, NCA, IDL, RPC.
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Date: 11 Feb 91 15:30:05 GMT
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I am using the Network Computing Architecture (NCA), Interface Definition
Language (IDL) to make RPC calls between VAXen and Suns.  I am using C++ on
the Sun side can VAXC on the VAX side.  I have encountered some minor
problems, such as the presence of the dollar sign in IDL generated symbols,
which I have successfully worked around.  I was wondering though if someone
had extended IDL to include some form of object support, such as inheritance,
access control etc?  I have not yet found a pressing need to design objects
with matching server/client implementations but it would seem that with some
extensions an IDL compiler could produce C++ code to do just that.  I would
appreciate hearing from anyone with knowledge of any work being done in this
area.

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