Re: A Design Rationale for C++/CLI

Dilip wrote:
>
> This post was around 10/2004 -- I have no idea if C++/CLI that was
> released along with .NET 2.0 around 11/2005 allows you to  
> instantiate a
> native C++ type with gcnew.

As the rationale says, this is not currently implemented in C++/CLI,
but may be in the future. The same thing applies to allocating a CLI
object on the native heap with new.

It has been suggested that the latter facility would allow a C++
program to use CLI types without even requiring the "sprinkling of
gcnew and ^" that is the minimum extended syntax currently required.
I'm not sure, however, whether this suggestion takes account of the
fact that the member functions of a CLI type typically have handle
arguments and handle return types.

Andrew


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