[Biocorba-l] Re: BOSC BOF Report

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Martin Senger wrote:

> > 
> > I don't know of any perl/python valuetype ORBs. Do you?
> >
>    No, I don't. But surely there are non-java (C++) ORBs with valuetypes.
> That's all what I said :-)

That are free and work .... ;)


Honestly. I feel that valuetypes will be free-stable-working in between
6-12 months time, if we are lucky. I know there is no real movement yet
inside ORBit to do it.

people prefer the "momento" pattern of an interface having a method which
returns its data as a struct.

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