"Cameron Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tcl went through this epiphany a few years, and has largely, > though not exclusively, committed to use of the once-more- > redirected API called Stubs <URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/stubs >. > Some Tcl-ers are orgasmic about the wonders of Stubs, some > ignore it, a few don't like it, and most, perhaps, aren't > even aware of its existence. Performance doesn't appear to > be much of an issue, though.
It uses function pointer tables (like COM), but in the "other direction" apparently. Bit by bit, I am remembering now just how stupifyingly brain-dead the MS DLL scheme is. Back in '87 or so, I wrote a better dynamic linker (for a Unix) in a couple of days. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list